Later text
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.
Intertextuality Pair
Echo
Later text
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
Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
Deuteronomy 12:18 commands Israel to eat and rejoice "before the LORD your God in the place He will choose," linking communal celebration to the centralized sanctuary. David's preparation of a place for the ark in Jerusalem (1 Chr 15:1) advances the fulfillment of this Mosaic vision. The verbal echo of "place" (maqom) connects Deuteronomy's anticipation of joyful worship at a chosen site to David's concrete establishment of Jerusalem as that location, grounding the festive theology of Deut 12 in historical realization.