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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 → Genesis 1

Echo

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 declares "I am doing a new thing" (חֲדָשָׁה, chadashah), employing creation-like language for the act of redemption. "Rivers in the desert" inverts the Genesis pattern: where God separated waters from dry land (Gen 1:9-10), He now brings water into dry land. The "new thing" vocabulary parallels Genesis 1's creative speech — God's word brings something unprecedented into existence. This new creation out of desert echoes the original creation's transformation of formless void into habitable order, but applies the pattern to the wilderness of exile rather than primeval chaos.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table