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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 Chronicles 11:18 → 2 Samuel 23:16

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 11:18BSB

So the Three broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

Earlier text

2 Samuel 23:16BSB

So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

Significance

Both texts record the episode where three of David's mighty men broke through the Philistine garrison at Bethlehem to bring David water from the well near the gate (בְּאֵר בֵּית לֶחֶם, be'er Bet Lechem). In both accounts, David refused to drink the water, pouring it out as a libation to the LORD, declaring it equivalent to "the blood of the men who risked their lives" (דַּם הָאֲנָשִׁים הַהֹלְכִים בְּנַפְשׁוֹתָם, dam ha'anashim haholekhim benafeshotam). The accounts are nearly verbatim, with the Chronicler preserving the same theological logic: water obtained at the risk of life becomes symbolically equivalent to blood, making it too sacred for human consumption and fit only as an offering to God.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Bethlehem-well episode is reproduced nearly verbatim from Samuel's appendix into the Chronicler's account of David's rise; the retelling preserves the libation-logic — water won at the price of life is poured out to the LORD as blood — within the advancing portrait of the king whose reign the history carries toward the temple.