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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 2:6 → Deuteronomy 11:7

Echo

Later text

Judges 2:6BSB

After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 11:7BSB

For it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done.

Significance

Judges 2:6 opens the narrative prologue that explains the generation who served the LORD "throughout the days of Joshua" and "who had seen all the great works" (כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂה יְהוָה הַגָּדוֹל, kol-ma'aseh YHWH hagadol). This echoes Deuteronomy 11:7, where Moses reminds Israel "it is your own eyes that have seen every great work that the LORD has done" (כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂה יְהוָה הַגָּדֹל). Both texts identify eyewitness experience of God's mighty acts as the basis for continued faithfulness. The Judges passage tragically shows that once the eyewitness generation died, so did Israel's fidelity, fulfilling the danger Moses anticipated in Deuteronomy.

Found via: Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (Judges 2:7) — cross-references Deuteronomy 11:7 at "all the great work of the LORD"
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Judges 2:6-7 narrates the historical outworking of Deuteronomy 11:7's appeal to eyewitness memory: the generation whose "own eyes... have seen every great work" served the LORD, and with their passing fidelity collapsed, moving the story to the stage where sight without a changed heart proves insufficient and the promised inward work becomes the covenant's necessary next chapter.

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Judges (Flawed Deliverers) Trajectory Table