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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 → Exodus 14:13

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

Exodus 14:13BSB

But Moses told the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD's salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again.

Significance

Moses' command at the Red Sea—"Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD's salvation" (הִתְיַצְּבוּ וּרְאוּ אֶת־יְשׁוּעַת יְהוָה, hityatsvu ur'u et-yeshu'at YHWH)—is echoed in Jahaziel's oracle to Jehoshaphat: "Do not be afraid or dismayed... for the battle is not yours but God's" (2 Chr 20:15). Both texts share the same structural pattern: Israel faces an overwhelming enemy, a divinely authorized leader commands them not to fear, and God fights on their behalf without requiring human military action. The Chronicler deliberately patterns Jehoshaphat's crisis on the Red Sea paradigm, using the exodus as the definitive model for divine warfare throughout Israel's subsequent history.

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

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