Moses’ ark-setting-out cry, “Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered,” is closely echoed by Psalm 68:1, “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered.” The verbal overlap is distinctive enough to support intentional reuse while still stopping short of a formal quotation formula.

Numbers 10 names Hobab in Moses’ wilderness travel negotiations; Judges 4 later identifies Hobab as Moses’ father-in-law in the ancestry of Heber the Kenite, carrying the family connection into the land narratives.

The ark going before Israel at the Jordan continues the wilderness pattern in which the ark went ahead to seek a resting place for the people. The ark’s advance at the Jordan therefore continues an earlier wilderness-leading pattern as Israel moves from journey toward inheritance.