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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 82:1-6 → Leviticus 19:15

Echo

Later text

Psalms 82:1-6BSB

A Psalm of Asaph. God presides in the divine assembly; He renders judgment among the gods: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked. They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I have said, 'You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.'

Earlier text

Leviticus 19:15BSB

You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.

Significance

Psalm 82:2 asks the unjust judges "How long will you... show partiality to the wicked?" — directly echoing the prohibition of Leviticus 19:15: "You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly" (בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ, betsedek tishpot amitekha). The psalm's indictment addresses judges who violate the Levitical standard of impartial judgment (מִשְׁפָּט, mishpat). Both texts share the concern with partiality (נָשָׂא פָנִים, nasa fanim, "lifting the face") — favoritism that distorts justice. The psalm dramatizes the Levitical prohibition by placing God Himself as the judge of the judges, holding them accountable to the very standard they should be enforcing.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Leviticus 19:15's standard of impartial judgment (no "lifting of faces") is the measure by which Psalm 82:2 arraigns the judges ("show partiality to the wicked"), one strand of the canon-long righteous-judgment theme in which God judges the judges — consummated in the impartial Judge of the living and the dead.