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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 44:28 → 2 Chronicles 36:22

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:22BSB

In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia to send a proclamation throughout his kingdom and to put it in writing as follows:

Earlier text

Isaiah 44:28BSB

who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,' who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and of the temple, 'Let its foundation be laid.'"

Significance

Isaiah 44:28 names Cyrus as God's "shepherd" (רֹעִי, ro'i) who will fulfill all God's purpose, saying of Jerusalem "She will be rebuilt" and of the temple "Let its foundation be laid." 2 Chronicles 36:22 records the fulfillment: "the LORD stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia" to issue a decree permitting the return and temple rebuilding. The Chronicler explicitly states this was "to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah" (2 Chr 36:22), but the decree's content — commissioning temple reconstruction — matches Isaiah 44:28's prophecy precisely. Isaiah's extraordinary naming of Cyrus over a century before his reign and Chronicles' documentation of its fulfillment together form one of the clearest promise-fulfillment arcs in the prophetic corpus.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

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