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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 9:14 → Deuteronomy 20:15

Allusion

Later text

Joshua 9:14BSB

Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 20:15BSB

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Significance

Deuteronomy 20:15 establishes a two-tier warfare policy: cities "far away" could be offered peace terms, while nearby Canaanite cities must be devoted to destruction (Deut 20:16-17). The Gibeonite deception in Joshua 9:14 exploits precisely this legal distinction -- the Gibeonites claimed to come "from a very distant land" (Josh 9:9) to qualify for the far-city peace provision rather than the nearby-city חֵרֶם (cherem) ban. The narrator's pointed note that "the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD" (Josh 9:14) highlights that Israel applied the Deuteronomic law correctly in principle but failed in discernment, accepting the Gibeonites' false claim without divine verification.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 20:15's two-tier warfare statute is the operative law of the conquest narrative: Israel applies the distant-city peace provision to the Gibeonites' false claim, and the narrator's note that they "did not seek the counsel of the LORD" marks a failure of discernment within, not against, the Mosaic framework.