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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 7:1 → 2 Kings 16:5

Quotation

Later text

Isaiah 7:1BSB

Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.

Earlier text

2 Kings 16:5BSB

Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.

Significance

Isaiah 7:1 and 2 Kings 16:5 are parallel accounts of the Syro-Ephraimite crisis, when Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel attacked Jerusalem. Both texts record the same event — Rezin and Pekah "came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him" (2 Kgs 16:5). The Kings narrative focuses on Ahaz's political response (appealing to Assyria for help, 2 Kgs 16:7), while Isaiah uses the crisis as the setting for the Immanuel prophecy (Isa 7:14). The shared historical event receives radically different theological framing: Kings shows the political failure; Isaiah reveals the prophetic opportunity Ahaz squandered by refusing to trust God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — parallel accounts of the one Syro-Ephraimite crisis: 2 Kings 16:5 records the failed assault within the narrative of the monarchy's decline ("They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him"), while Isaiah 7:1 retells the same event as the setting God turns into the Immanuel promise (Isa 7:14), advancing the Davidic-covenant storyline from political crisis toward the virgin-born King.