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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 2:30 → Exodus 13:19

Allusion

Later text

Acts 2:30BSB

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Earlier text

Exodus 13:19BSB

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, "God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place."

+ 3 more earlier texts

Earlier text

Numbers 30:3BSB

And if a woman in her father's house during her youth makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge,

Earlier text

Joshua 9:20BSB

This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

Earlier text

Psalms 132:11BSB

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: "One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

Significance

Peter calls David a prophet who “knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne” (Acts 2:30) — the sworn Davidic covenant: “The LORD has sworn an oath to David... One of your own descendants I will set upon your throne” (Psalm 132:11; cf. the oath-motif of Exodus 13:19 and 2 Samuel 7). The force of the argument lies in the oath: God bound Himself irrevocably to seat a son of David on an everlasting throne, yet every historical Davidide died and the throne stood empty. Peter resolves the tension by pointing to the resurrection — David “foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ” (2:31), for only a King raised from the dead can occupy an eternal throne. The sworn word does not fail: the risen and ascended Jesus is the promised Son enthroned at God’s right hand, the guarantee that God keeps His covenant to the letter and to the end.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment