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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 16:13 → Isaiah 15:1

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 16:13BSB

This is the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab.

Earlier text

Isaiah 15:1BSB

This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

Significance

Isaiah 16:13 is a self-referential prophetic notation: "This is the message (דָּבָר, davar) that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab," pointing back to the oracle that begins at Isaiah 15:1 with "the burden (מַשָּׂא, massa) against Moab." This editorial note establishes that the Moab oracle in chapters 15-16 was delivered at an earlier date, and 16:14 then adds a new, time-specific word setting the downfall within three years. The device distinguishes between the original prophecy and its updated application, showing how prophetic words could be reissued with fresh chronological precision.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — a prophetic word advancing within history: 16:13 expressly identifies the burden of 15:1 as "the message that the LORD spoke earlier concerning Moab," and 16:14 then moves that undated word forward to a fixed horizon ("In three years, as a hired worker counts the years"), displaying the LORD's sovereign government of His word's timetable as judgment progresses toward execution.