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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 2:8

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 2:8BSB

So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

Significance

Jephthah's defense references Deuteronomy 2:8, where Israel peacefully bypassed Edomite territory, passing by their brothers the descendants of Esau (אַחֵינוּ בְנֵי עֵשָׂו, acheinu benei Esav). This demonstrates Israel's pattern of respecting kinship-based territorial boundaries divinely established for Esau's descendants. By citing this precedent of restraint, Jephthah argues that the same Israel who honored Edom's borders did not aggressively seize Ammonite land, but only took territory that YHWH explicitly gave them from the Amorites.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah appeals to Israel's recorded passage by "our brothers, the descendants of Esau" (Deuteronomy 2:8) as a completed stage of the covenant journey whose restraint toward kin nations proves Israel's present holdings were never carved from Ammonite land but received within God's territorial allotments.