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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

Psalms 72:10-11 → Genesis 10:4

Echo

Later text

Psalms 72:10-11BSB

May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts. May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

Earlier text

Genesis 10:4BSB

And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.

Significance

Psalm 72:10 names "the kings of Tarshish and distant shores" among those bringing tribute to the ideal Davidic king. Genesis 10:4 lists Tarshish (תַּרְשִׁישׁ) among the descendants of Javan (Greece/Ionia), representing the far western Mediterranean peoples in the Table of Nations. By naming Tarshish in the royal psalm, the psalmist draws on the Table of Nations' geography to assert that the Davidic king's dominion encompasses even the most distant known peoples — those at the extreme western edge of the ancient world. The psalm envisions the reversal of Babel's scattering: the nations catalogued in Genesis 10 will voluntarily bring tribute to Zion's king.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Psalm 72:10 summons "the kings of Tarshish and distant shores" — Tarshish drawn from Javan's line in the Table of Nations (Gen 10:4) — to bring tribute to the Davidic king, the dispersion-catalog of Genesis 10 turned toward its redemptive reversal: the scattered nations gathered in homage to the King to whom the magi's gifts and Revelation's kings alike point.