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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

Isaiah 10:26 → Exodus 14:16

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 10:26BSB

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

Earlier text

Exodus 14:16BSB

And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

Significance

Isaiah 10:26 explicitly recalls the exodus deliverance: "He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt," echoing Moses stretching out his hand over the sea with his staff (מַטֶּה, matteh) in Exodus 14:16. Isaiah uses this exodus memory to assure Judah that God will defeat Assyria with the same sovereign power He displayed against Egypt. The verb נָטָה (natah, "to stretch out/raise") connects both passages, as God's instrument of judgment swings from Pharaoh's army to Assyria's forces. This establishes the new exodus pattern: the original deliverance becomes the paradigm through which Israel reads all future acts of divine salvation.

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

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