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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 13:36 → 1 Kings 2:10

Allusion

Later text

Acts 13:36BSB

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

Earlier text

1 Kings 2:10BSB

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Judges 2:10BSB

After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 7:12BSB

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

Earlier text

1 Kings 2:10BSB

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David.

Significance

"When David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay" (Acts 13:36). Paul presses the plain fact of David's death and burial — "David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David" (1 Kings 2:10) — to prove that Psalm 16's promise that God's Holy One would not see decay could not finally speak of David, whose tomb remained. The connection works by contrast within continuity: David, the anointed king and type of the Messiah, served his generation and then decayed, while the One whom God raised did not see decay (Acts 13:37). The greater Son of David fulfills what David only foreshadowed — an incorruptible, unending reign. David's grave becomes the foil that magnifies the empty tomb: the type dies and is buried; the antitype is raised, and of His kingdom there is no end.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology + Contrast