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

Psalms 15:1-5 → Deuteronomy 16:15

Echo

Later text

Psalms 15:1-5BSB

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain? He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart, who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend, who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath, who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 16:15BSB

For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

Significance

Psalm 15:1 asks "LORD, who may dwell in Your tent?" — defining moral qualifications for approaching God. Deuteronomy 16:15 commands celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles "at the place the LORD will choose" and promises "the LORD your God will bless you." Both texts address the conditions and experience of legitimate worship at God's sanctuary. The psalm emphasizes ethical prerequisites — integrity, truthfulness, financial justice — that must characterize the worshiper who enters the sacred space where the festivals Deuteronomy 16 prescribes would be celebrated. The connection reveals that pilgrimage festival participation presupposed the moral qualifications the entrance liturgy articulated.

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