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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 1:27 → Joshua 17:12

Quotation

Later text

Judges 1:27BSB

At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.

Earlier text

Joshua 17:12BSB

But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.

Significance

Both Joshua 17:12 and Judges 1:27 use the identical Hebrew formula לֹא יָכְלוּ...לְהוֹרִישׁ (lo yakhlu...lehorish, "could not dispossess") to describe Manasseh's failure to drive out the Canaanites from Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their surrounding villages. The verbatim repetition of the same city list and the same verb of failure creates a direct quotation across books, underscoring that this was not a minor setback but a defining failure in the conquest. Both texts note that the Canaanites "persisted in dwelling" (הוֹאִיל, ho'il) in the land, marking the beginning of the coexistence that Deuteronomy 7:2 had explicitly prohibited.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 1:27 carries Joshua 17:12's could-not-dispossess notice verbatim into the opening frame of the judges era, so that Manasseh's failure recorded under Joshua becomes the acknowledged seedbed of the coexistence and decline the book goes on to narrate — the conquest's shortfall driving the story onward toward the victory Israel could not win for itself.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Conquest of Canaan Trajectory Table