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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 15:4 → Psalm 86:9-10

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 15:4BSB

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed."

Earlier text

Psalm 86:9-10BSB

All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name. For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square7:58

Significance

Psalm 86:9 expresses the hope that "all the nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord; they will bring glory to your name." Revelation 15:4 proclaims this as accomplished: "All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed." The verbal correspondence — "all nations will come and worship before you" — is nearly exact. What was prayer and prophetic hope in the Psalm becomes eschatological reality in Revelation. The addition of "for Your righteous acts have been revealed" connects universal worship to the bowl judgments, showing that God's justice compels the acknowledgment of His sovereignty. This allusion demonstrates the canonical trajectory of Gentile inclusion that runs from Abrahamic promise through the Psalter to its consummation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme