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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 2:45 → Isaiah 41:15

Echo

Later text

Daniel 2:45BSB

And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation is trustworthy."

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 2:45 describes a stone "cut out of the mountain without human hands" that shatters the composite statue of world empires. Isaiah 41:15 likewise depicts God making Israel into a sharp threshing sledge that will "thresh the mountains and crush them" -- reducing opposition to chaff. Both texts use the imagery of mountains being broken by God's chosen instrument, with the key theological point that the power is divine, not human ("not by human hands" in Daniel; "I will make you" in Isaiah). The allusion reinforces Daniel's message that God's kingdom overcomes world empires through His own power, not through human military might.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Kingdom of God (Stone Kingdom) Trajectory Table