Later text
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
Intertextuality Pair
Lamentations 1:10 → Deuteronomy 23:3
Allusion
Earlier text
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
Significance
Lamentations 1:10 depicts nations entering Jerusalem's מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash, "sanctuary"), the very peoples Deuteronomy 23:3 excluded from the קָהָל (qahal, "assembly") of the LORD. The poet's horror derives precisely from the Deuteronomic prohibition: the Ammonites and Moabites whom God forbade from His assembly have now overrun the holy place itself. This reversal exposes the devastating consequence of Israel's own covenant violations -- the sanctuary meant to be guarded from outsiders has been handed over to them by God Himself as an act of judgment. The allusion transforms Deuteronomy's exclusion law into a measure of the catastrophe's magnitude.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
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