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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 43:19 → Exodus 14

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 43:19BSB

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

Earlier text

Significance

Isaiah 43:19 announces "I am about to do something new (חֲדָשָׁה, chadashah)... I will make a way (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) in the wilderness and streams in the desert," directly recalling yet surpassing the Exodus 14 deliverance. The "way" through the wilderness echoes Israel's post-sea journey, while "streams in the desert" reverses the barren landscape of the original exodus wandering. The crucial word is "new" — after rehearsing the original exodus in vv. 16-17, God commands Israel not to dwell on it (v. 18) because the coming deliverance will be categorically greater. The pattern of Exodus 14 remains the template, but the new thing will exceed the old.

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

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