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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
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Intertextuality Pair

Acts 7:45 → Joshua 3:14

Allusion

Later text

Acts 7:45BSB

And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

Earlier text

Joshua 3:14BSB

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Joshua 23:9BSB

The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

Earlier text

Joshua 24:18BSB

And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

Earlier text

Genesis 17:8BSB

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:14

Significance

The generation of Israelites who entered the land naturally took the appurtenances of their worship with them: "our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David" (Acts 7:45). Within Stephen's covenant-history speech this verse is a redemptive-historical waypoint — the tabernacle carried into the land, remaining until David — and it carries the name-attestation: the Greek text names Joshua Ἰησοῦς, the very name Jesus bears ("Yahweh saves"). The verse itself is narration, not an independent typological argument; the Joshua→Christ typological argument is mounted by Hebrews 4:8, which reasons from the incompleteness of the rest Joshua gave. Stephen's own typological pivots come at Moses (Acts 7:35), the tupon of the tent (7:44), and the Righteous One (7:52). The name-attestation is thus an Acts-internal datum (Ἰησοῦς in the Greek of Acts 7:45), while Joshua 3:14 carries the ark's entry, not the name; the verbal contact with the conquest-fulfilment lies at Joshua 23:9 (with Joshua 24:18).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression (primary) + Name-Attestation

Linked Mentions 2

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