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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

Psalm 135:10 → Deuteronomy 2:33

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 135:10BSB

He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 2:33BSB

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

Significance

Deuteronomy 2:33 attributes Israel's victory over Sihon entirely to divine initiative: "the LORD our God delivered him over to us" (וַיִּתְּנֵהוּ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ, vayyitnehu YHWH 'eloheinu). Psalm 135:10 echoes this theological emphasis: "He struck down (הִכָּה, hikkah) many nations," naming Sihon among the specific kings defeated. The psalmist's use of "He struck down" preserves the Deuteronomic insistence that God was the true warrior; Israel merely followed His command. The transformation of conquest narrative into hymnic praise shows how Israel's worship drew directly on the theological interpretation of history that Moses provided in his farewell addresses.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Deuteronomy 2:33's report that "the LORD our God delivered him over to us" is carried into hymnody by Psalm 135:10 ("He struck down many nations"), the conquest stage of redemptive history recited as grounds of praise — the Divine Warrior's victories moving the story toward the King who disarms every power.