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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 20:4 → 2 Samuel 21:18

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 20:4BSB

Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 21:18BSB

Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.

Significance

Both texts record the battles against the Philistine giants (יְלִידֵי הָרָפָה, yelidei haraphah, "descendants of the Raphah/giant") at Gob/Gezer. 2 Samuel 21:18 names the location as Gob, while 1 Chronicles 20:4 identifies it as Gezer — likely referring to the same engagement in the broader region. Both name Sibbecai the Hushathite as the warrior who struck down Saph/Sippai, one of the Rephaim descendants. The parallel accounts preserve a tradition of David's warriors systematically eliminating the last remnants of the giant warrior class that had terrorized Israel since the days of the Conquest, continuing the theme begun with David's defeat of Goliath.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Samuel's appendix on the Gittite giants is relocated into the Chronicler's continuous war narrative: the last of the Rephaim-descended warriors fall to David's men, completing on the forward line of the story what began with Goliath — the king's servants subduing the land's remaining terrors as the kingdom is established.