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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

2 Kings 18:32 → Deuteronomy 8:7

Allusion

Later text

2 Kings 18:32BSB

until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, 'The LORD will deliver us.'

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 8:7BSB

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

Significance

The Rabshakeh's description of the deportation land in 2 Kings 18:32 — "a land of grain and new wine" — echoes Moses' description of the promised land in Deuteronomy 8:7 as "a good land" (אֶרֶץ טוֹבָה, 'erets tovah) flowing with agricultural abundance. By appropriating Deuteronomic land-promise language for Assyrian propaganda, the Rabshakeh implicitly claims that Assyria can offer what Yahweh offered — a rhetorical blasphemy. The allusion forces the hearers to choose between the genuine divine promise (Deuteronomy) and the imperial counterfeit (Assyria), making the siege a theological as well as military crisis.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme