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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 7:9 → 2 Chronicles 20:20

Allusion

Later text

Isaiah 7:9BSB

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.'"

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 20:20BSB

Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, "Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed."

Significance

Isaiah 7:9 delivers the famous wordplay: "If you do not stand firm in faith (תַאֲמִינוּ, ta'aminu), you will not stand firm at all (תֵאָמֵנוּ, te'amenu)" — a paronomasia on the root אמן (aman, "to be firm/believe"). 2 Chronicles 20:20 echoes with a nearly identical construction: "Believe (הַאֲמִינוּ, ha'aminu) in the LORD your God and you will be established (תֵּאָמֵנוּ, te'amenu)." The identical root and the same semantic link between believing and being established connect the two passages. Jehoshaphat's exhortation before battle recalls Isaiah's challenge to Ahaz, demonstrating the same theological principle: faith in God is the condition of national security, not military alliances or human strategy.

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