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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 11:15 → Exodus 23:20

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 11:15BSB

The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.

Earlier text

Exodus 23:20BSB

Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

Significance

Isaiah 11:15-16 promises a "highway" (מְסִלָּה, mesillah) for the remnant returning from Assyria "as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt," deliberately echoing God's promise in Exodus 23:20 to send an angel "before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared." Both passages describe God preparing a path (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) for His people through hostile territory. Isaiah transforms the first exodus journey into a paradigm for the second: just as God dried the sea and guided Israel through the wilderness with His angel, so He will again split waters and create a highway for the returning exiles.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Remnant (Faithful Few Preserved) Trajectory Table