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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 → Numbers 21:10

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

Numbers 21:10BSB

Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.

Significance

Jephthah's historical argument traces Israel's wilderness itinerary from Numbers 21:10, where the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth after the Bronze Serpent incident, beginning their journey through Transjordan. By citing this itinerary (from Oboth through Iye-abarim to the Valley of Zered), Jephthah demonstrates the factual route Israel took, bypassing Moabite and Ammonite territory before encountering the Amorites. This appeal to the Numbers narrative alongside Deuteronomy's account shows Jephthah treating both Pentateuchal sources as complementary historical witnesses establishing Israel's legitimate territorial claims.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Jephthah's rebuttal traces Israel's route from the Oboth encampment of Numbers 21:10 onward as fixed redemptive history, the Pentateuchal itinerary of a prior stage supplying the factual record that Israel bypassed Moab and Ammon and took territory only from the Amorites whom God delivered up.