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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

Psalm 78:68 → Exodus 15:17

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 78:68BSB

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Earlier text

Exodus 15:17BSB

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

Significance

Exodus 15:17 anticipates God establishing His sanctuary on the mountain of His inheritance, and Psalm 78:68 identifies Mount Zion as this chosen mountain: "He chose... Mount Zion, which He loved" (הַר צִיּוֹן אֲשֶׁר אָהֵב, har tsiyon asher ahev). The psalm traces a line from exodus anticipation to Davidic election, interpreting the Song of the Sea's mountain-sanctuary vision as fulfilled when God chose Zion over Shiloh (Ps 78:60, 67). This poetic retrospective reveals that Israel's psalmists understood the Zion tradition as rooted in the earliest post-exodus expectation of a divine dwelling place.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

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New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table