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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 23:17 → Deuteronomy 23:18

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 23:17BSB

And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 23:18BSB

You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Significance

Deuteronomy 23:18 prohibits bringing the wages of a prostitute (אֶתְנַן זוֹנָה, etnan zonah) into the house of the LORD, declaring such earnings "detestable." Isaiah 23:17 shockingly reverses this prohibition: after Tyre returns to her "prostitution" (trade with all kingdoms), her profits and wages will be "set apart to the LORD" (קֹדֶשׁ לַיהוָה, qodesh la-YHWH) — going to feed and clothe those who serve before Him (23:18). What Deuteronomy categorically excluded from the sanctuary, Isaiah envisions being consecrated for holy use, suggesting a future transformation where even pagan commercial wealth is redirected to serve God's purposes.

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