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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 135:6 → Exodus 20:4

Echo

Later text

Psalm 135:6BSB

The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

Earlier text

Exodus 20:4BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Significance

Exodus 20:4 prohibits making an idol "in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath," and Psalm 135:6 celebrates God's sovereign activity in those same three realms: "The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths." The second commandment's prohibition covers images from every domain of creation, and the psalm asserts God's unrivaled sovereignty over those same domains. The connection is one of theological grounding: idols are prohibited precisely because the true God actually exercises dominion over heaven, earth, and sea—no crafted image can represent the One whose active will governs all three realms.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the three realms in which Exodus 20:4 bans every image (heavens, earth, waters) are the same three realms over which Psalm 135:6 declares the LORD "does all that pleases Him," one thread of the canonical no-image / incomparability theme (cf. the psalm's own idol polemic, 135:15-18) that runs until God supplies His own true Image in the Son.

▸ The Decalogue

Linked Mentions 1

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 20 — The Decalogue

Psalm 135:6 → Exodus 20:4

Significance

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