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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 1:10 → Deuteronomy 29:23

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 1:10BSB

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 29:23BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Significance

Isaiah shocks his audience by addressing Jerusalem's leaders as "rulers of Sodom" and its people as "people of Gomorrah" (קְצִינֵי סְדֹם, qetzinei Sedom; עַם עֲמֹרָה, am Amorah), echoing Deuteronomy 29:23 where Moses warned that covenant unfaithfulness would make Israel's land resemble the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. Deuteronomy 29 presented this as a future curse for abandoning the covenant; Isaiah declares that Jerusalem has become so corrupt that it now merits the very comparison Moses threatened. The preceding verse (Isa 1:9) acknowledges that only the LORD's preservation of a remnant has prevented literal Sodom-like annihilation, making the Sodom epithet in v. 10 all the more devastating — Jerusalem has already arrived at the moral condition the covenant curses anticipated.

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

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Remnant (Faithful Few Preserved) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 1:9 — A Remnant Like Sodom