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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 11:18-19 → Deuteronomy 12:16

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 11:18-19BSB

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, saying, "Far be it from me, my God, to do this! How can I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?" Because they had brought it at the risk of their lives, David refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three mighty men.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 12:16BSB

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

Significance

David's warriors risked their lives to bring water from the well at Bethlehem, and David refused to drink it, instead pouring it out before the LORD, declaring it equivalent to the "blood" (dam) of these men. This act echoes Deuteronomy 12:16's command to pour blood on the ground "like water," but inverts the analogy: here water is treated as blood because it cost human life. David's gesture transforms a military exploit into a quasi-sacrificial act, treating the water as sacred because of the mortal risk involved in obtaining it.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — David's libation presupposes Deuteronomic blood-theology: Deut 12:16 orders blood poured on the ground "like water" rather than eaten, and David inversely treats life-risked water as blood too sacred to drink, pouring it out to the LORD; the pair sits on the canon-long blood-is-life thread that runs from the Torah's prohibition to the poured-out blood of Christ.