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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 1:45 → 2 Samuel 6:17

Echo

Later text

1 Kings 1:45BSB

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city. That is the noise you hear.

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 1:45, Jonathan reports that Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed Solomon at Gihon, and they "have gone up from there with rejoicing that rings out in the city." This public rejoicing echoes the scene in 2 Samuel 6:17 when the ark was brought into Jerusalem with shouting and the sound of the ram's horn, and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Both events center on Jerusalem, and both produce city-wide celebration — connecting the legitimacy of Solomon's enthronement to the foundational act of establishing Yahweh's presence in David's capital.

Found via: John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1763)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the rejoicing that rings out in the city at Solomon's anointing (1 Kings 1:45) parallels the celebration that accompanied the ark's entry into Jerusalem with shouting and the ram's horn (2 Samuel 6:15-17): both scenes pair a priest-attended procession with city-wide jubilation in David's capital, the echo lending Solomon's enthronement the legitimacy of that foundational celebration.