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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 20:20-21

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 20:20-21BSB

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." Then Jehoshaphat consulted with the people and appointed those who would sing to the LORD and praise the splendor of His holiness. As they went out before the army, they were singing: "Give thanks to the LORD, for His loving devotion endures forever."

Significance

The connection traces divine faithfulness through Israel's Scriptures. From Isaiah 7 to 2 Chronicles 20, God's covenant loyalty is celebrated. Christ is the 'Faithful and True' (Rev 19:11) who guarantees all God's promises and keeps covenant with his people forever. Both texts share the same deliberate wordplay on the root אמן ('aman, "believe/be established")—Isaiah's "If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all" and Jehoshaphat's "Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld"—and Judah's resulting victory came through worship rather than combat, validating the principle that trusting God's word secures deliverance.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the shared אמן wordplay (believe / be established) carries the canon-long theme that standing before God rests on faith in His word, running from Genesis 15:6 through Isaiah 28:16 and Habakkuk 2:4 to its New Testament citation "the righteous will live by faith."