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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 2:36

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 2:36BSB

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Significance

Jephthah's argument cites Deuteronomy 2:36, which specifies the precise territorial extent of Israel's victory over Sihon: "From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley." The detailed boundary markers (עֲרֹעֵר, Aroer; נַחַל אַרְנוֹן, nachal Arnon) demonstrate that Israel's holdings were precisely those of the defeated Amorite king, not Ammonite territory. By invoking these specific geographical details from the Mosaic record, Jephthah builds a forensic case that Israel's borders follow the contours of divine grant, not arbitrary conquest. The Deuteronomic boundary description extends this same grant as far as Gilead, marking the full northern reach of what Sihon's defeat handed to Israel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah's defense stands on the boundary record of Deuteronomy 2:36, where the LORD gave Israel every city from Aroer on the Arnon as far as Gilead; the completed divine grant of that earlier stage defines the borders Israel now holds, making the Mosaic record itself the charter Jephthah pleads.