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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

Psalm 132:6-7 → 1 Samuel 6:1-2

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 132:6-7BSB

We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar. Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 6:1-2BSB

When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months, the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place."

Significance

Psalm 132:6 recalls "We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar" — a poetic reference to the ark's location at Kiriath-jearim (literally "city of forests/fields of Jaar"). 1 Samuel 6:1-2 narrates the ark's return from Philistine captivity, when the Philistines consulted their priests about how to return "the ark of the God of Israel." The psalm references the broader ark narrative in which the ark was captured, returned, and housed at Kiriath-jearim (1 Sam 7:1-2) before David brought it to Jerusalem. The "fields of Jaar" (שְׂדֵי־יָעַר, sede-ya'ar) is a poetic abbreviation connecting David's quest to find the ark with its long sojourn after the Philistine captivity. 1 Samuel 6:1 specifies that the ark endured seven months in Philistine territory before this return, making its recovery in the psalm's memory an unusually protracted humiliation reversed.

Found via: Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Davidic Temple Promise

Linked Mentions 4

Intertextuality Pairs 1

Psalms 132:6-7 to 1 Samuel 6:1-2

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Psalm 132 — The Davidic Temple Promise

Psalm 132:6-7 → 1 Samuel 6:1-2

Significance

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