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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 1:18 → Joshua 13:2

Echo

Later text

Judges 1:18BSB

And Judah also captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron—each with its territory.

Earlier text

Joshua 13:2BSB

This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

Significance

Joshua 13:2 identifies the Philistine territory as land that "remains" (נִשְׁאֶרֶת, nish'eret) unconquered, listing the regions still held by Israel's enemies. Judges 1:18 reports that Judah captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron -- three of the five Philistine cities -- suggesting partial fulfillment of what Joshua 13 left incomplete. The tension between these texts highlights the incompleteness of the conquest: what Joshua catalogued as remaining territory Judges shows being only partially subdued, since Judges 1:19 immediately qualifies that Judah could not drive out the inhabitants of the plains due to their iron chariots.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 1:18 takes up "the land that remains" of Joshua 13:2 at the next stage of the conquest narrative, recording Judah's capture of Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron as partial progress on Joshua's unfinished catalogue — an incompleteness (qualified at once by Judges 1:19) that keeps the storyline reaching toward the rest only a greater Joshua secures.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Conquest of Canaan Trajectory Table