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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 17:6 → Isaiah 34:5-7

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 17:6BSB

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

Earlier text

Isaiah 34:5-7BSB

When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.

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Significance

Isaiah 34:5-7 describes YHWH's sword as "bathed in heaven" and "drunk with blood" (rivtah) in the judgment against Edom, with the land soaked in blood and fat from the divine slaughter. Revelation 17:6 describes the harlot Babylon as "drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus." Both texts use the image of being intoxicated or saturated with blood. In Isaiah, it is YHWH's instrument of judgment that is drunk with blood; in Revelation, it is the persecuting city that has gorged itself on the blood of the faithful. The ironic reversal is that the one drunk on blood will herself be made to drink the cup of God's wrath (17:16; 18:6). This allusion connects Babylon's persecution of the saints with the OT pattern of blood-guilt that demands divine retribution.

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