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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Judges 11:15 → Deuteronomy 2:24

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 2:24BSB

"Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

Significance

Jephthah's argument in Judges 11:15 draws on God's command in Deuteronomy 2:24 to "begin to take possession" (רֵשׁ, resh) of Sihon's territory, distinguishing land God explicitly granted Israel from land He reserved for Moab and Ammon. By referencing this divine authorization, Jephthah demonstrates that Israel's Transjordanian holdings came through YHWH's direct command against the Amorites, not through aggression against the Ammonites. This appeal to Mosaic precedent shows how Israel's leaders used Torah as the authoritative basis for territorial legitimacy. The specific command to "cross the Arnon Valley" and engage Sihon (Deut 2:24) supplies the geographic marker anchoring Jephthah's claim to a definite, divinely authorized boundary.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah grounds Israel's present territorial legitimacy in God's earlier command to take Sihon's land (Deuteronomy 2:24), reading his own moment as downstream of that divinely directed stage of the one redemptive-historical narrative.