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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 19:22 → Genesis 19:5

Allusion

Later text

Judges 19:22BSB

While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!"

Earlier text

Genesis 19:5BSB

They called out to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!"

Significance

The men of Gibeah surround the house and demand to "know" (יָדַע, yada) the Levite guest, deliberately echoing the language of the Sodomites in Genesis 19:5 who demanded Lot bring out his visitors so they could "know" them. The narrative parallels are extensive: nighttime arrival, hospitality from a single host, a mob surrounding the house, and the offer of women to appease the crowd. By casting an Israelite city in the role of Sodom, the Judges narrator delivers a devastating theological indictment: Israel has become morally indistinguishable from the paradigmatic city of wickedness that God destroyed. The allusion signals that without faithful leadership, the covenant people can descend to depths matching the worst of the nations. The parallel extends to a second shared verb: both mobs demand the host "bring out" (יָצָא, yatsa, Hiphil) the guest before demanding to "know" him, tightening the verbal correspondence between the two accounts.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the narrator deliberately restages the Sodom scene at Gibeah (the surrounded house, the demand to "bring out" the guest, the mob's demand to "know" him) so that the correspondence itself is the indictment: covenant Israel has become as Sodom, the analogy exposing a corruption no judge can heal and only sovereign grace can (cf. Hosea 9:9; 10:9).