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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

Ezra 3:2 → Deuteronomy 12:5

Allusion

Later text

Ezra 3:2BSB

Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.

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

Deuteronomy 12:5 establishes the foundational principle that Israel must worship at "the place the LORD your God will choose" (הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר יִבְחַר, hammaqom 'asher yivchar), and Ezra 3:2 records the post-exilic community's first act as rebuilding the altar at Jerusalem to offer burnt offerings "as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God." The returnees' insistence on the authorized site—even before the temple was rebuilt—demonstrates that Deuteronomy's centralization command governed their understanding of legitimate worship. This post-exilic obedience represents a redemptive-historical development: the same command that anticipated a future chosen place now guides restoration after its destruction.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 3