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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

Judges 1:10 → Joshua 15:14

Allusion

Later text

Judges 1:10BSB

Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Earlier text

Joshua 15:14BSB

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

Significance

Both Joshua 15:14 and Judges 1:10 record the defeat of the three Anakite clans -- Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai -- at Hebron (formerly Kiriath-arba). Joshua 15:14 attributes the expulsion to Caleb, while Judges 1:10 attributes it to the tribe of Judah, reflecting the corporate identity between Caleb and his tribal context. The naming of identical opponents in both texts confirms these are parallel accounts of the same military action, with the Anakites (עֲנָקִים, Anaqim) representing the archetypal fearsome enemies that had terrified the original spies (Numbers 13:33). Their defeat at Hebron vindicates Caleb's faith forty-five years earlier when he alone declared Israel capable of taking the land.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 1:10 carries the Joshua conquest record forward into the next stage of the one covenant story, re-narrating the defeat of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai at Hebron (Joshua 15:14) as Judah's tribal act after Joshua's death, so that the new generation's campaign stands on the victory God had already begun through Caleb's vindicated faith.