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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

Proverbs 3:19 → Psalms 136:5

Allusion

Later text

Proverbs 3:19BSB

The LORD founded the earth by wisdom and established the heavens by understanding.

Earlier text

Psalms 136:5BSB

By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever.

Significance

Psalm 136:5 praises God "who made the heavens by understanding (תְּבוּנָה, tevunah)" — directly echoing Proverbs 3:19: "By wisdom the LORD founded the earth; by understanding (תְּבוּנָה, tevunah) He established the heavens." Both texts use the identical Hebrew word tevunah to describe the divine attribute by which the heavens were created, connecting liturgical praise to wisdom theology. The shared assertion that creation required divine understanding bridges the Psalter's doxology and Proverbs' wisdom instruction, showing that Israel's poets and sages drew on the same theological vocabulary to celebrate God's creative intelligence.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Longitudinal Themes 1

Wisdom