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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
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Intertextuality Pair

1 Chronicles 16:43 → 2 Samuel 6:19-20

Quotation

Later text

1 Chronicles 16:43BSB

Then all the people departed for their homes, and David returned home to bless his household.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 6:19-20BSB

Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home. As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him. "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!" she said. "He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do."

Significance

2 Samuel 6:19-20 describes David distributing food to the assembly, the people departing, and David returning to bless his household — only to be met by Michal's scorn for his public dancing. 1 Chronicles 16:43 compresses this to a single verse: "Then all the people departed for their homes, and David returned home to bless his household." The Chronicler follows Samuel's text verbatim for the dismissal formula but eliminates the Michal confrontation that dominates the Samuel account. Between these parallel conclusions, the Chronicler inserts the appointment of Asaph and his associates for ongoing worship ministry (1 Chr 16:4-42), including the great psalm of thanksgiving (1 Chr 16:8-36). This restructuring makes worship institutions, rather than domestic conflict, the enduring legacy of the ark's arrival.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the identical Hebrew dismissal formula closes both accounts, but the Chronicler removes the Michal scene and inserts the Asaphite worship appointments (1 Chr 16:4-42), so that the ark's arrival issues in instituted praise rather than court conflict; Samuel's ending is advanced into Chronicles' worship-centered history that flows into the covenant oracle of 1 Chr 17.