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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 1:38 → 2 Samuel 6:17

Echo

Later text

1 Kings 1:38BSB

Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David's mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

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

Both passages describe a solemn procession through Jerusalem involving David's inner circle. In 1 Kings 1:38, Zadok, Nathan, Benaiah, and the Cherethites and Pelethites escort Solomon on David's royal mule to Gihon for anointing. In 2 Samuel 6:17, David's procession brings the ark of the LORD into the tent he had pitched, completing the journey with sacrifices. The two processions together frame the establishment of Jerusalem as the center of both Davidic kingship and Yahweh's covenantal presence, with the same priestly and military leaders facilitating both events.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the two texts set parallel solemn processions side by side: Zadok, Nathan, and Benaiah with the Cherethites and Pelethites escorting Solomon on David's mule to Gihon corresponds to David's escort of the ark to the tent he had pitched (2 Samuel 6:17), the same priestly and military circle attending both king and ark, so that Solomon's investiture procession mirrors the pattern established when Yahweh's presence entered the royal city.