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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 16:39 → 1 Kings 3:4

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 16:39BSB

And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

Earlier text

1 Kings 3:4BSB

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.

Significance

In 1 Kings 3:4, Solomon sacrifices at Gibeon because it was "the great high place." The Chronicler in 1 Chronicles 16:39 provides the crucial background: "David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon." This explains the unique worship situation in David's era — the ark was in Jerusalem in the tent David pitched, while the Mosaic tabernacle with its bronze altar remained at Gibeon. Solomon's pilgrimage to Gibeon was therefore not mere high-place worship but a visit to the legitimate Mosaic sanctuary, where the prescribed sacrificial system continued under Zadokite oversight.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the pair belongs to the canon's sanctuary thread in its divided interim: David stations Zadok "before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon" for the prescribed offerings (1 Chr 16:39-40), which is why Solomon's Gibeon sacrifice (1 Kgs 3:4) is legitimate Mosaic-altar worship; the two texts trace the institution of the one sanctuary from tent and altar toward their reunion in the temple.