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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 41:15-16

Allusion

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 41:15-16BSB

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. You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Significance

Daniel 2:45 recapitulates the vision's climax: "a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands" that "shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold." Isaiah 41:15-16 promised that God would make Israel a threshing instrument to crush mountains to מוֹץ (motz, "chaff") and winnow them so the wind carries them away. Both texts share the motif of divinely-empowered destruction of seemingly immovable powers (mountains/metallic kingdoms) reduced to nothing. Daniel's interpretive conclusion -- "the great God has told the king what will happen in the future" -- frames the stone-kingdom as the eschatological fulfillment of Isaiah's threshing promise, extending it from Israel's immediate enemies to all world empires.

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