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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

Luke 1:69 → 2 Samuel 22:3

Allusion

Later text

Luke 1:69BSB

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David,

Earlier text

2 Samuel 22:3BSB

My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation. My stronghold, my refuge, and my Savior, You save me from violence.

Significance

Zechariah's Benedictus — "He has raised up a horn of salvation (keras sōtērias) for us in the house of His servant David" (Luke 1:69) — employs the exact phrase from David's great thanksgiving hymn in 2 Samuel 22:3, where David praises Yahweh as "the horn of my salvation" (qeren yišʿî). The horn (qeren / keras) is a Hebrew metaphor for power and dominion drawn from the animal world; a raised horn signals triumphant strength. David used it of God as his personal deliverer; Zechariah applies the same image to the coming Messianic king of David's line. The phrase thus traces a trajectory from Yahweh as Israel's direct deliverer through the Davidic king as his vicarious representative to the ultimate son of David in whom God's saving power is personally embodied. The Benedictus interprets the coming of Jesus as the long-awaited actualization of what David's song had anticipated.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Backward-Looking) + Longitudinal Theme