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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 15:1 → Deuteronomy 12:14

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 15:1BSB

David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 12:14BSB

you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Significance

David's preparation of a place for the ark (1 Chr 15:1) echoes Deuteronomy 12:14's command to offer sacrifices "only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories." The Chronicler portrays David's selection of Jerusalem as the realization of the Deuteronomic centralization principle: worship must occur at the divinely chosen site, not at arbitrary locations. This connection validates Jerusalem's cultic status for the post-exilic community by tracing its election back through David to Mosaic law.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

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