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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
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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 9:6 → Deuteronomy 20:15

Allusion

Later text

Joshua 9:6BSB

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, "We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us."

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

The Gibeonites' request in Joshua 9:6 -- "We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty (בְּרִית, berit) with us" -- directly targets the Deuteronomy 20:15 provision allowing peace treaties with distant cities. Their language is crafted to invoke the legal category of the "far away" (רְחֹקוֹת, rechoqot) city that may receive mercy, in contrast to the nearby Canaanite nations that must be destroyed (Deut 20:16-17). The Gibeonites' shrewd appeal demonstrates their knowledge of Israel's Torah-based warfare policies and their understanding that survival depended on being classified under the distant-city provision rather than the local-city חֵרֶם (cherem) mandate.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Gibeonites' plea ("We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us") deliberately invokes Deuteronomy 20:15's far-city provision then governing Israel's warfare: the Mosaic statute has advanced into the conquest era as the operative legal framework, known even to Canaanites seeking survival under it.