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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 28:21 → Joshua 10:10

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 28:21BSB

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

Earlier text

Joshua 10:10BSB

And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

Significance

Isaiah 28:21 refers to the LORD rousing Himself "as in the Valley of Gibeon" (כְּעֵמֶק בְּגִבְעוֹן, ke'emeq beGiv'on), recalling Joshua 10:10 where "the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel" at the battle of Gibeon — one of Israel's most miraculous military victories, accompanied by hailstones from heaven and the sun standing still. Isaiah takes this paradigmatic act of divine warfare for Israel and threatens its reversal: God will now direct the same devastating power against His own unfaithful people. This is what Isaiah calls God's "strange work" — the same God who fought for Israel at Gibeon will fight against Israel with equal ferocity. The verb behind "threw... into confusion" is הָמָם (hamam) — the same divine unraveling of the enemy's ranks that Isaiah now threatens to unleash against Israel itself.

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

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