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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 63:13 → Exodus 15:8

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 63:13BSB

who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Earlier text

Exodus 15:8BSB

At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Significance

Isaiah 63:13 recalls God leading Israel "through the depths" (בַּתְּהֹמוֹת, batehomot), directly echoing Exodus 15:8 where "the depths congealed in the heart of the sea" (קָפְאוּ תְהֹמֹת, qaf'u tehomot) at the Red Sea crossing. The shared vocabulary of תְּהוֹם (tehom, "deep") connects Isaiah's retrospective prayer to the Song of the Sea's celebration. Isaiah 63:13 adds the striking simile "like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble" — portraying Israel's passage through the divided sea as effortless as a horse galloping across open terrain. By recalling the physical miracle of Exodus 15:8 — the blast of God's nostrils piling up the waters — Isaiah invokes the original exodus as the paradigm for the deliverance he now petitions God to repeat.

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

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