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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

Hebrews 10:27 → Isaiah 26:11

Allusion

Later text

Hebrews 10:27BSB

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

Earlier text

Isaiah 26:11BSB

O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

+ 1 more earlier text

Earlier text

Zephaniah 1:18BSB

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD's wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy." For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.

Significance

Isaiah 26 is Judah's song for the day of the LORD's victory: the righteous wait for Him, while the wicked, though shown grace, "fails to see the majesty of the LORD" (26:10). So the prophet prays, "They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!" (26:11). Hebrews 10:27 speaks of "a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries," and its Greek is the LXX's: zeal (ζῆλος, G2205, here "raging"), fire (G4442), consume (G2068) and adversaries (ὑπεναντίος, G5227) all stand in Isaiah 26:11. The tie is strong. Hebrews aims it at anyone who has "trampled on the Son of God" and "profaned the blood of the covenant" (10:29), for once that sacrifice is refused, "no further sacrifice for sins remains" (10:26). Yet the warning stands inside an invitation: "we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus" (10:19), so "let us draw near" (10:22). The zeal that burns against God's enemies is zeal "for Your people," and the safe place is beside the great priest who offered Himself, waiting for "He who is coming" (10:37).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy