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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 15:3 → Deuteronomy 12:5

Echo

Later text

1 Chronicles 15:3BSB

And David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 12:5BSB

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

Significance

The Chronicler's account of David assembling all Israel to bring the ark to its prepared place (1 Chr 15:3) directly echoes Deuteronomy 12:5's command to "seek the place the LORD your God will choose...to establish as a dwelling for His Name." Both texts share the key concept of a divinely chosen maqom where God's Name resides. The Chronicler presents David's Jerusalem as the historical answer to Moses' prophetic promise, with the ark's arrival signaling the beginning of centralized Yahwistic worship.

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

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