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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 2:26

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 2:26BSB

So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

Significance

Jephthah's defense echoes Deuteronomy 2:26, where Moses sent messengers (מַלְאָכִים, mal'akim) with words of peace (שָׁלוֹם, shalom) to Sihon king of Heshbon. By citing this precedent, Jephthah argues that Israel had first pursued peaceful passage through Amorite territory before Sihon's refusal forced military engagement. The parallel between Moses sending peace envoys to Sihon and Jephthah now sending messengers to the Ammonite king reinforces the diplomatic pattern: Israel's territorial gains resulted not from aggression but from others' refusal of peaceful terms. Moses had sent these peace envoys to Sihon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth (Deut 2:26), the same posture of first-seeking-peace that Jephthah now claims for Israel's dealings with Ammon.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Analogy — Jephthah's denial that Israel seized Ammonite land rests on Moses' peace embassy to Sihon from Kedemoth (Deuteronomy 2:26) as a fixed, binding stage of the story his own generation inherits; and his own sending of messengers deliberately mirrors Moses' peace-first pattern, aligning his diplomacy with the covenantal precedent he cites.