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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Nehemiah 5:1 → Exodus 22:46

Allusion

Later text

Nehemiah 5:1BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:25BSB

If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.

Significance

The people's outcry (צְעָקָה, tse'aqah) in Nehemiah 5:1 against fellow Jews who exploit them through lending practices recalls the Exodus 22 legislation governing economic obligations among covenant members. The broader Exodus 22 context establishes protections for the poor — prohibiting usury, requiring the return of pledged garments, and warning that God will hear the cry of the oppressed. Nehemiah's crisis, in which families mortgage fields and sell children into slavery, demonstrates the devastating consequences when the covenant community ignores these Sinaitic economic protections. The verbal echo of "outcry" connects to God's promise in Exodus 22:23 that He will hear the cry of the mistreated.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the outcry of Nehemiah 5:1 invokes the Exodus 22:25 creditor prohibition and its promise that God hears the cry of the oppressed; the Sinaitic economic protections advance from founding legislation to enforced covenant standard in the post-exilic community.