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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 11:6 → Genesis 3:14

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 11:6BSB

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Earlier text

Genesis 3:14BSB

So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

Significance

Isaiah 11:6 envisions predators and prey coexisting peacefully — wolf with lamb, leopard with goat, child with serpent — directly reversing the enmity and violence that entered creation through the curse of Genesis 3:14. In Genesis, the serpent is cursed (אָרוּר, arur) above all animals, and enmity is established between the serpent's seed and the woman's seed (3:15). Isaiah's peaceable kingdom vision depicts the messianic age as the undoing of this primal curse: the hostility between humans and animals, and the predatory violence within the animal world, is healed under the Davidic Branch's reign. The child safely playing at the cobra's den (Isa 11:8) specifically answers the serpent's threat established in Eden.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 11:1-10 — A Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

Isaiah 11:6 → Genesis 3:14

Significance

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