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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

Jonah 2:2 → Psalms 18:6

Allusion

Later text

Jonah 2:2BSB

saying: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

Earlier text

Psalms 18:6BSB

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

Significance

Jonah 2:2 echoes the language of Psalm 18:6 (cf. 2 Samuel 22:7): both describe crying to the LORD from extreme distress and being heard "From His temple." The verbal parallels are striking—מִצָּרָה ("from distress" — a root-echo of Psalm 18:6's בַּצַּר), קָרָאתִי ("I called"), שָׁמַע ("he heard"). Jonah's psalm from the belly of the fish draws extensively on Davidic psalmic tradition, demonstrating how the prophets applied royal suffering-and-deliverance patterns to their own experience. This connection links prophetic suffering (Jonah) to royal suffering (David), both of which find ultimate fulfillment in Christ's death and resurrection.

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

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