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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

Ezra 1:36 → Ezra 1:6

Echo

Later text

Ezra 1:4BSB

And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.'"

Earlier text

Ezra 1:6BSB

And all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all their freewill offerings.

Significance

Ezra 1:6 records that "all their neighbors supported them with articles of silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuables," fulfilling Cyrus's decree within the same chapter. This intra-chapter cross-reference (from v. 6 to v. 4, or possibly to v. 36 which is likely a verse numbering error) demonstrates immediate obedience to the royal command: the neighbors did exactly what the edict authorized. The pattern of Gentile neighbors enriching departing Israelites deliberately mirrors the Exodus plundering of Egypt (Exod 12:35-36), reinforcing the new Exodus typology that pervades Ezra's opening chapter.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None — the pair rests on an impossible reference: Ezra 1 contains only eleven verses, so there is no Ezra 1:36 (the file's own Text field already falls back to Ezra 1:4), and the genuine v. 4 → v. 6 edict-to-execution connection is documented in the properly ordered pair Ezra 1:6 to Ezra 1:4.