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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 16:12 → Isaiah 11:15

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 16:12BSB

And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

Earlier text

Isaiah 11:15BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:47

Significance

Isaiah 11:15 prophesies that YHWH "will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt" and "wave his hand over the Euphrates" to divide it into seven streams so people can cross in sandals — a new exodus motif. Revelation 16:12 describes the sixth bowl drying up "the great river Euphrates" to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Both texts use the drying of the Euphrates as a sign of divine intervention enabling passage, though in Revelation the ironic twist is that this "way" leads to Armageddon rather than salvation. The historical background includes Cyrus's diversion of the Euphrates to conquer Babylon (Isa 44:27-28). John layers multiple OT texts — Isaiah's new exodus, Cyrus's conquest, and Jeremiah's Euphrates prophecy — into a single eschatological image of Babylon's final vulnerability.

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

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New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table