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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 14:6 → Judges 3:10

Echo

Later text

Judges 14:6BSB

and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Earlier text

Judges 3:10BSB

The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.

Significance

What the two texts share is the subject, not the whole phrase: רוּחַ יְהוָה (ruach YHWH) comes upon each man, but the verbs differ — Judges 14:6 has וַתִּצְלַח (vatitslach, צָלַח H6743, "rushed powerfully upon"), Judges 3:10 has וַתְּהִי (vattehi, הָיָה H1961, "was upon"). The connection is a shared idiom recounting similar events, not a verbal citation. It still connects Samson's supernatural strength to the same Spirit-empowerment that enabled Othniel to deliver Israel from Cushan-rishathaim. In Judges 3:10, the Spirit's coming leads to national deliverance through war; in Judges 14:6, the Spirit empowers Samson to tear a lion apart barehanded. The echo establishes a consistent pattern: Israel's judges operate not by human ability but by divine empowerment, though Samson's increasingly personal use of the Spirit's power contrasts with Othniel's communal deliverance.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the shared subject רוּחַ יְהוָה (ruach YHWH, "the Spirit of the LORD") binds Samson (Judges 14:6) into the Spirit-empowerment pattern inaugurated with Othniel (Judges 3:10), developing the canon-long theme of deliverance wrought not by human strength but by the Spirit's coming — a thread that runs through the judges toward the Deliverer on whom the Spirit rests without measure.

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