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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

1 Chronicles 2:3 → Joshua 7:1

Echo

Later text

1 Chronicles 2:3BSB

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.

Earlier text

Joshua 7:1BSB

The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.

Significance

Joshua 7:1 identifies Achan as descending from Zerah of the tribe of Judah. First Chronicles 2:3 opens Judah's genealogy by naming Judah's sons Er, Onan, and Shelah, then proceeds to Perez and Zerah (born to Tamar), establishing the two major Judahite lines. Achan's lineage through Zerah is significant because it places him in the non-Davidic branch of Judah; the messianic line runs through Perez (1 Chr 2:5-15, culminating in David). This genealogical echo connects Achan's חֵרֶם (cherem) violation at Jericho to the broader Judahite family history, showing that covenantal unfaithfulness marked the Zerahite line while God's redemptive purposes advanced through Perez.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 1 Chr 2:3-7 deliberately preserves both Judahite branches: Zerah's, in which Achan broke faith over the devoted things (Josh 7:1), and Perez's, which runs to David; the register carries the earlier covenant breach forward as part of the record that election advanced through Perez despite failure in the brother-line.