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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 16:1 → 2 Kings 3:4

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 16:1BSB

Send the tribute lambs to the ruler of the land, from Sela in the desert to the mount of Daughter Zion.

Earlier text

2 Kings 3:4BSB

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Significance

Isaiah 16:1 calls on Moab to "send the tribute lambs" (כָּרִים, karim) to the ruler in Zion, recalling 2 Kings 3:4 where Mesha king of Moab rendered a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams as tribute to the king of Israel. After Mesha's rebellion ended this arrangement, Isaiah's oracle demands the resumption of tributary submission — but now directed to the Davidic throne on Mount Zion rather than to the northern kingdom. The historical memory of Moab's sheep-tribute provides the concrete background for Isaiah's prophetic demand that Moab recognize Judah's sovereign authority.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the historical lamb-tribute Mesha once rendered to Israel's king (a hundred thousand lambs, 2 Kgs 3:4) is taken up and redirected after Moab's rebellion: Isaiah summons the tribute lambs "to the mount of Daughter Zion," moving the remembered arrangement forward to submission to the Davidic throne, which the oracle immediately unveils in messianic terms — "in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David" (Isa 16:5).