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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 Chronicles 20:15 → 1 Samuel 17:47

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 20:15BSB

And he said, "Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 17:47BSB

And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and He will give all of you into our hands."

Significance

Jahaziel's prophetic declaration "the battle is not yours, but God's" (lo lakhem hammilchamah ki la-Elohim, 2 Chr 20:15) echoes David's proclamation to Goliath: "the battle is the LORD's" (la-YHWH hammilchamah, 1 Sam 17:47). Both passages use the identical theological formula attributing military victory to divine rather than human power. The verbal parallel connects Jehoshaphat's confrontation with Moab, Ammon, and Edom to David's paradigmatic single combat, establishing a consistent biblical pattern: Israel's deliverances come from God's intervention, not human military strength.

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

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2