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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 10:7

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 10:7BSB

The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

Significance

Psalm 72:10 names "the kings of Sheba and Seba" (שְׁבָא וּסְבָא, Sheva uSeva) among those bringing gifts to the Davidic king. Genesis 10:7 lists Sheba (שְׁבָא) among the descendants of Cush, representing the peoples of southern Arabia or east Africa in the Table of Nations. The psalm draws on the Table of Nations' ethnic geography to envision tribute from the wealthy spice-trading kingdoms of the south — the same region from which the Queen of Sheba brought gifts to Solomon (1 Kings 10:1-10). By echoing Genesis 10's genealogical catalog, Psalm 72 presents the ideal king's reign as a gathering of all nations dispersed since Babel. The vision also draws on the traditional reckoning of Genesis 10 as comprising seventy nations, casting the psalm's universal homage as encompassing that full comprehensive scope of humanity's post-flood dispersion.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — "the kings of Sheba and Seba" (Ps 72:10) reach back to the Cushite line of Genesis 10:7, the royal psalm summoning the Table of Nations' southern peoples to gifts and homage — post-flood dispersion moving toward ingathering under the ideal king, a progression fulfilled when all kings bow to the risen Son of David.