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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

Zechariah 4:9 → Isaiah 44:28

Echo

Later text

Zechariah 4:9BSB

"The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.

Earlier text

Isaiah 44:28BSB

who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd will fulfill all that I desire,' who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and of the temple, 'Let its foundation be laid.'"

Significance

Zechariah 4:9 declares, "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation (יִסַּד, yissad) of this house, and his hands will complete it," fulfilling Isaiah 44:28's prophecy about God saying of Jerusalem, "She will be rebuilt," and of the temple, "Let its foundation (יוּסָּד, yussad) be laid." Both texts use the verb יָסַד (yasad, "to lay a foundation") for the temple's reconstruction. Isaiah 44:28 remarkably names Cyrus as God's instrument for authorizing the rebuilding, while Zechariah identifies Zerubbabel — Cyrus's appointed governor and Davidic heir — as the one who actually carries it out. Zechariah 4:9 thus records the real-time fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy: what Isaiah predicted would happen through Cyrus's decree, Zechariah witnesses through Zerubbabel's hands.

Found via: Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Redemptive-Historical Progression — Isaiah's prophecy of the temple, "Let its foundation be laid" (Isaiah 44:28), is recorded as fulfilled in real time: "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it" (Zechariah 4:9) (Promise-Fulfillment), a concrete advance of the post-exilic restoration from Cyrus's decree to the Davidic heir's completed work (Redemptive-Historical Progression).

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