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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 2:29 → 1 Chronicles 24:31

Echo

Later text

Acts 2:29BSB

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Earlier text

1 Chronicles 24:31BSB

As their brothers the descendants of Aaron did, they also cast lots in the presence of King David and of Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.

Significance

Peter speaks “confidently about the patriarch David, that he died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day” (Acts 2:29). The title patriarches — used in the Greek Old Testament for the heads of Israel’s ancestral houses (cf. 1 Chronicles 24:31) — dignifies David as a founding father of the nation, yet the very point is his mortality: the patriarch died, decayed, and his tomb remains. This establishes the argument’s hinge. David’s own psalm promised that God’s Holy One would not see decay (Psalm 16:10), but David plainly did decay; therefore he “spoke as a prophet” of another (2:30-31). The undisturbed tomb of the great king becomes the proof that the resurrection psalm points past David to his greater Son — the true and deathless King whose tomb, unlike David’s, could not hold Him.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None