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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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Intertextuality Pair

Judges 1:10-15 → Joshua 15:14-19

Quotation

Later text

Judges 1:10-15BSB

Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. From there they marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher). And Caleb said, "To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage." So Othniel son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage. One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you desire?" "Give me a blessing," she answered. "Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Earlier text

Joshua 15:14-19BSB

And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir (formerly known as Kiriath-sepher). And Caleb said, "To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage." So Othniel son of Caleb's brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage. One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you desire?" "Give me a blessing," she answered. "Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Significance

Joshua 15:14-19 and Judges 1:10-15 are nearly verbatim parallel accounts of the same events: Caleb's defeat of the three Anakite clans at Hebron, his challenge offering his daughter Acsah to whoever captures Kiriath-sepher, and Othniel's victory and subsequent marriage. The Judges account reproduces the Joshua narrative with minimal variation, including the distinctive episode where Acsah requests springs of water (גֻּלֹּת מַיִם, gullot mayim) in addition to her Negev land. By retelling this account at the opening of Judges, the narrator establishes Othniel as a model of faithful conquest, setting up his later role as Israel's first judge (Judges 3:9-11) and providing a benchmark against which subsequent judges will be measured.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 1:10-15 reproduces the Joshua 15:14-19 Caleb-Acsah-Othniel account nearly verbatim at the opening of the judges era, advancing the one storyline from conquest to judgeship on the foundation of the Joshua record and establishing Othniel as the faithful-conquest benchmark against which the coming deliverers will be measured (Judges 3:9-11).