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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 4:17 → Exodus 2:7

Echo

Later text

1 Chronicles 4:17BSB

The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And Mered’s wife Bithiah gave birth to Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

Earlier text

Exodus 2:7BSB

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?"

Significance

The Chronicler's genealogy of Judah mentions Bithiah "daughter of Pharaoh" (bat-Par'oh) whom Mered married (1 Chr 4:17), while Exodus 2:7 introduces Moses' sister offering to find a Hebrew nurse for Pharaoh's daughter who drew Moses from the Nile. The connection is the figure of Pharaoh's daughter, who in each text bridges Egyptian royalty and Israelite identity. The Chronicler's notice that an Egyptian princess married into the tribe of Judah suggests the incorporation of gentile nobility into God's covenant people, a pattern that parallels Rahab and Ruth in the Davidic genealogy.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the connection is the analogous figure of a daughter of Pharaoh (בַּת־פַּרְעֹה) aligned with Israel: as the princess of Exodus 2 drew Moses from the Nile and preserved the future deliverer, so Bithiah marries into Judah (1 Chr 4:17-18) and is absorbed into the covenant people — parallel instances of Egyptian royalty serving and joining Israel's story, akin to Rahab and Ruth in the Davidic line.