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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

1 Kings 1:34 → 2 Samuel 6:17

Echo

Later text

1 Kings 1:34BSB

There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram's horn and declare, 'Long live King Solomon!'

Earlier text

2 Samuel 6:17BSB

So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

Significance

In 1 Kings 1:34, Zadok the priest anoints Solomon as king (מָשַׁח, mashach) and the ram's horn (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) is sounded, while 2 Samuel 6:17 describes the ark being set in the tent David had pitched, followed by burnt offerings and peace offerings. The echo connects Solomon's anointing to the earlier moment when David established God's dwelling place in Jerusalem — both events mark the convergence of Davidic kingship and worship of Yahweh in the royal city. Solomon's anointing thus takes place in the sacred geography David created when he brought the ark to Zion.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the anointing commanded in 1 Kings 1:34 is carried out with the horn of oil taken from the tabernacle (1 Kings 1:39), the very tent 2 Samuel 6:17 records David pitching for the ark, so Solomon's installation takes place inside the sacred order David established when he brought the ark to Zion; kingship and worship converge in Jerusalem as the one story advances from the ark's tent toward the temple this newly anointed king will build.