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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 72:17 → Genesis 18:18

Allusion

Later text

Psalms 72:17BSB

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Earlier text

Genesis 18:18BSB

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Significance

Psalm 72:17 — "In him may all nations be blessed" — echoes Genesis 18:18 where God declares "Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed" (וְנִבְרְכוּ בוֹ, venivrekhu vo). The Genesis passage reaffirms the Abrahamic blessing in the context of God's intimate revelation to Abraham before Sodom's destruction. The psalm applies this universal blessing formula to the Davidic king, creating a theological bridge: the blessing promised through Abraham's seed is now channeled through the royal line. The very next verse (Genesis 18:19) adds the element of Abraham's responsibility to "command his children" in righteousness — a moral dimension that Psalm 72 reflects in its portrait of the king who judges "Your afflicted with justice" (72:2).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

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