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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 29:3 → 2 Samuel 5:6

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 29:3BSB

I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.

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 29:3 declares "I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you" — God Himself besieges Jerusalem, echoing the language of David's siege of Jebusite Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 5:6-9. The verb חָנָה (chanah, "to encamp/besiege") links both passages: David encamped against the city to conquer it for God's purposes, and now God encamps against the same city in judgment. The parallel is deliberately unsettling: the city David took from the Jebusites to make the LORD's dwelling now faces a siege conducted by the LORD Himself, because the inhabitants have become as resistant to God as the original Jebusites were to David.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — as David encamped against Jebusite Jerusalem to take it for God's purposes (2 Sam 5:6-9; cf. Isa 29:1, "the city of Ariel where David camped"), so the LORD now declares "I will camp in a circle around you": Isaiah patterns God's siege of Ariel on David's original siege, with the unsettling reversal that Zion's inhabitants now stand where the Jebusites stood — resisting the rightful King who comes against His own city.

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