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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

Daniel 2:34 → Isaiah 41:15

Echo

Later text

Daniel 2:34BSB

As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

Earlier text

Isaiah 41:15BSB

Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

Significance

Daniel 2:34 describes a stone cut "not by human hands" that strikes and crushes the great statue, employing imagery of divine power shattering worldly empires. Isaiah 41:15 uses related crushing imagery: God will make Israel into a "threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth" that will "thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff" (מוֹץ, motz). Both texts share the motif of divinely empowered crushing of opposition reduced to windblown chaff. Daniel's stone-kingdom and Isaiah's threshing-sledge both depict God's sovereign power overturning the mighty through instruments of His own choosing rather than through human military strength. Isaiah 41:15 names this instrument מוֹרָג (morag, "threshing sledge"), the very implement Israel becomes in God's hand to accomplish this crushing.

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

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Kingdom of God (Stone Kingdom) Trajectory Table