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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 → Judges 7:25

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

Judges 7:25BSB

They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.

Significance

Isaiah 10:26 names "the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb" (צוּר עוֹרֵב, tsur Orev), directly recalling Judges 7:25 where the Ephraimites captured and killed the Midianite prince Oreb at the rock that bore his name. Isaiah invokes this specific historical victory — achieved by Gideon's tiny force through divine intervention — to promise that God will likewise destroy the Assyrian superpower with unexpected, overwhelming power. The "Day of Midian" becomes a prophetic shorthand for God's pattern of defeating overwhelming enemies through seemingly inadequate means, a pattern Isaiah earlier established as paradigmatic (Isa 9:4). Isaiah had already named this event "the day of Midian" (9:4); here he recalls it by "the rock of Oreb", fixing Gideon's victory as a canonical paradigm of all subsequent divine deliverances.

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

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