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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

Psalms 24:3-4 → Deuteronomy 16:16

Echo

Later text

Psalms 24:3-4BSB

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 16:16BSB

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Significance

Psalm 24:3 asks "Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD (הַר־יְהוָה, har-YHWH)?" Deuteronomy 16:16 commands "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place He will choose." The psalm functions as the liturgical gateway for the pilgrimage appearances Deuteronomy mandates — the moral screening at the temple gates through which pilgrims must pass. The psalm's requirement of "clean hands and a pure heart" (v. 4) ensures that the three-yearly "appearing before the LORD" is not merely physical presence but morally qualified worship. Together the texts show that Israel's pilgrimage system combined institutional mandate with personal holiness. This entrance liturgy stands over the whole festival calendar of Deuteronomy 16, not only its summary verse: the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD will choose (16:2, 6), the joyful Feast of Weeks kept there (16:11), and the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles there (16:15) are all gathered into the thrice-yearly command that every male appear before the LORD (16:16) — and every such appearing passes through the same gate of clean hands and a pure heart.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme