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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Hosea 5:10 → Deuteronomy 19:14

Allusion

Later text

Hosea 5:10BSB

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 19:14BSB

You must not move your neighbor's boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Significance

Hosea 5:10 accuses Judah's leaders of being "like those who move boundary stones" (כְּמַסִּיגֵי גְּבוּל, kemasigey gevul), directly echoing Deuteronomy 19:14's prohibition: "You must not move your neighbor's boundary marker" (לֹא תַסִּיג גְּבוּל רֵעֲךָ). Both texts use the verb סוּג/נָסַג (sug/nasag) with גְּבוּל (gevul, "boundary"). Deuteronomy's law protected inherited land allotments established by God's distribution; moving boundary stones was theft of divinely apportioned inheritance. Hosea applies this concrete agrarian law metaphorically to Judah's political and territorial encroachments, suggesting that Judah's leaders have violated the divinely established boundaries between the kingdoms, acting as land-grabbers during Israel's military weakness. Hosea's oracle continues by naming the consequence in kind: God himself declares "I will pour out My fury upon them like water," matching in judgment the very act of overrunning what was not theirs.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Hosea applies Deuteronomy's concrete land-law against moving a neighbor's boundary marker to Judah's princes, whose territorial-political encroachment corresponds to the outlawed land-theft; the simile ("like those who move boundary stones") makes the analogical transfer explicit