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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 1:27-28 → Joshua 17:12-13

Quotation

Later text

Judges 1:27-28BSB

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. When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

Earlier text

Joshua 17:12-13BSB

But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to occupy these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land. However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.

Significance

Both Joshua 17:12-13 and Judges 1:27-28 record the same sequence: Manasseh's inability to dispossess the Canaanites followed by the imposition of forced labor (מַס, mas) when Israel grew strong. This near-verbatim parallel demonstrates that Judges 1 quotes from the Joshua account to frame the opening of the judges period. The shift from the Deuteronomic command to destroy (חֵרֶם, cherem) to the pragmatic compromise of forced labor represents a critical departure from God's instruction, substituting economic exploitation for covenant obedience. This compromise becomes a template for Israel's pattern throughout Judges -- partial obedience that sows the seeds of later apostasy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 1:27-28 repeats Joshua 17:12-13's sequence of failed dispossession followed by forced labor as the hinge between the conquest era and the judges cycle, the compromise recorded under Joshua now framing the next stage of the story as partial obedience whose fruit the book proceeds to narrate.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Conquest of Canaan Trajectory Table