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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

Joshua 24:13 → Deuteronomy 6:10

Allusion

Later text

Joshua 24:13BSB

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 6:10BSB

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

Significance

Deuteronomy 6:10 promises that God will bring Israel into "a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build," and Joshua 24:13 confirms the fulfillment: "I gave you a land for which you did not labor and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them." Both texts use the formulaic contrast between divine gift and human non-effort—cities "you did not build" (לֹא בָנִיתָ, lo vanita). Joshua's farewell speech deliberately echoes the Deuteronomic promise to show that what Moses anticipated, God has now accomplished. The verbal correspondence signals to Israel that the conquest constitutes the verifiable fulfillment of the Deuteronomic blessings, grounding their obligation to serve the LORD in demonstrated covenant faithfulness.

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