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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 43:14 → Exodus 14

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 43:14BSB

Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.

Earlier text

Significance

Isaiah 43:14-17 recasts the Babylonian exile's end as a new exodus, explicitly recalling Exodus 14's Red Sea deliverance. The LORD introduces Himself as Israel's "Redeemer" (גֹּאֲלֲכֶם, go'alkhem) and then echoes the exodus narrative: "He who makes a way in the sea, a path through the mighty waters" (43:16), recalling Moses' parting of the sea. Verse 17 describes the pursuing army — "chariot and horse, army and warrior" — lying down together "never to rise again, snuffed out like a wick," paralleling Pharaoh's army drowned in the sea (Ex 14:28). Yet Isaiah 43:18-19 then commands Israel to transcend this very memory: "Do not remember the former things... I am doing a new thing," indicating the new exodus will surpass even the original.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Typology + Longitudinal Theme

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