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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 16:39-40 → 1 Kings 3:4

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 16:39-40BSB

And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.

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 goes to Gibeon "the great high place" to sacrifice a thousand burnt offerings (עֹלוֹת, 'olot). The connection to 1 Chronicles 16:39-40 explains why Gibeon was significant: the Chronicler records that David stationed Zadok the priest at "the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon" to offer burnt offerings continually "according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD." This Chronicler's note retroactively legitimizes Solomon's worship at Gibeon — it was not an unauthorized high place but the location of the Mosaic tabernacle with its legitimate altar and Zadokite priesthood, distinct from the ark's tent in Jerusalem.

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.