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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

Acts 13:22 → 1 Samuel 15:23

Allusion

Later text

Acts 13:22BSB

After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

Earlier text

1 Samuel 15:23BSB

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king."

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Earlier text

1 Samuel 13:14BSB

But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD."

Earlier text

1 Chronicles 10:14BSB

and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

Earlier text

Psalms 89:20BSB

I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Significance

Paul's summary "After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king" (Acts 13:22) alludes to the rejection oracle of 1 Samuel 15:23 — "Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king." The verse supplies the removal pole of Paul's sequence, not its quoted wording: the words Paul actually cites ("I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart") are a composite drawn from Psalm 89:20 and 1 Samuel 13:14 (see those pairs). The connection is therefore Contrast — Saul rejected for rejecting God's word, David chosen as the man after God's own heart — and the contrast is load-bearing for Paul's argument: the removal of the people's king is the redemptive-historical clearing that makes room for the promised king from whose line God has brought to Israel the Savior Jesus (Acts 13:23).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Contrast

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Acts 13:22 → 1 Samuel 15:23

Significance

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