Later text
Isaiah 29:1BSB
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
Intertextuality Pair
Isaiah 29:1 → 2 Samuel 5:6
Echo
Earlier text
2 Samuel 5:6BSB
Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: "You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you." For they thought, "David cannot get in here."
Significance
Isaiah 29:1 addresses Jerusalem as "Ariel" (אֲרִיאֵל, Ariel — "lion of God" or "altar hearth"), calling it "the city of Ariel where David camped" (חָנָה דָוִד, chanah David), directly recalling 2 Samuel 5:6-9 where David besieged Jebusite Jerusalem and made it his capital. The echo is deliberately ominous: God now threatens to besiege the very city David captured and consecrated. Isaiah's woe oracle reverses the founding narrative — the city David encamped against and took will itself be encamped against by God (29:3). The historical memory of David's conquest becomes the template for God's own siege of His unfaithful city.
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- Reference Type
- Echo
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