How to read this page

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

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 78:68-69 → Exodus 15:17

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 78:68-69BSB

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

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 envisions God planting Israel on "the mountain of Your inheritance" and establishing "the sanctuary" (מִקְּדָשׁ, miqdash) that "Your hands have established," and Psalm 78:68-69 identifies this as realized in the election of Mount Zion and the building of Solomon's temple: "He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. He built His sanctuary like the heights." The psalm traces the trajectory from the Song of the Sea's anticipation to historical fulfillment, connecting the exodus promise of divine dwelling with the Davidic-Solomonic temple. The temple "built like the heights" (כְּמוֹ רָמִים, kemo ramim) echoes the mountain imagery of Exodus 15:17, showing how Israel's poets understood the Jerusalem sanctuary as the realization of what Moses foresaw at the Red Sea.

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

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) Trajectory Table