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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

Amos 2:8 → Exodus 22:26

Allusion

Later text

Amos 2:8BSB

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:26BSB

If you take your neighbor's cloak as collateral, return it to him by sunset,

Significance

Amos 2:8 condemns those who "lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge," echoing Exodus 22:26-27, which commands that a poor man's cloak (שַׂלְמָה, salmah) taken as pledge must be returned by sunset because "his cloak is the only covering he has for his body." Exodus grounds the law in divine compassion: "if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate." Amos exposes how Israel has perverted this compassion-based legislation, using confiscated garments not for legitimate security but for self-indulgent revelry at pagan altars, transforming instruments of the poor's protection into accessories of idolatrous worship. Amos's phrase בְּגָדִים חֲבֻלִים (begadim chavulim, "garments taken in pledge") shares the root ח-ב-ל with Exodus's חֲבֹל (chavol), making the verbal echo of the pledge-law explicit.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Exodus 22:26-27's compassion-grounded pledge law (return the cloak by sunset, "for I am compassionate") is traced to its violation: Amos's בְּגָדִים חֲבֻלִים takes up the same ח-ב-ל pledge vocabulary to indict Israel for reclining at the altars on the very garments the law ordered returned.