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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 2:3

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 2:3BSB

"You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north

Significance

Jephthah's argument alludes to God's command in Deuteronomy 2:3 that Israel had been "wandering around this hill country long enough" and should turn northward, bypassing Edom's territory. This instruction to avoid (לֹא תִתְגָּרוּ, lo titgaru, "do not provoke") Esau's descendants demonstrates that Israel respected divinely appointed territorial boundaries. Jephthah's citation of this restraint serves his larger argument: Israel did not take land belonging to related nations, so the Ammonite claim of territorial theft is historically baseless.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah's claim that Israel took no Moabite or Ammonite land invokes God's wilderness-era command to stop circling the hill country and turn north past Esau's grant (Deuteronomy 2:3) as settled redemptive history, the divinely directed itinerary of a prior stage functioning as the legal ground of Israel's present borders.