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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 11:15 → Deuteronomy 2:13

Allusion

Later text

Judges 11:15BSB

to tell him, "This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 2:13BSB

"Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered." So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.

Significance

Jephthah's diplomatic speech in Judges 11:15 directly recounts Israel's wilderness itinerary from Deuteronomy 2, citing the crossing of the Brook Zered (נַחַל זֶרֶד, nachal zered) as evidence that Israel did not seize Moabite or Ammonite territory. By retelling Moses' account of the Transjordanian passage, Jephthah appeals to authoritative Mosaic tradition as legal precedent to refute the Ammonite king's territorial claims. This demonstrates that Israel's judges knew and invoked the Pentateuchal narrative as binding historical testimony in diplomatic disputes. The territory Israel actually held was won from Sihon the Amorite, precisely because God had prohibited Israel from touching Moabite or Ammonite land--a distinction central to Jephthah's legal defense.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah stands at a later stage of the one covenant narrative and invokes the Zered crossing of Deuteronomy 2:13 as binding redemptive-historical precedent, the conquest-era events functioning as the authoritative prior chapter of the story Israel's judges still inhabit.