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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Amos 5:10 → Deuteronomy 16:18

Allusion

Later text

Amos 5:10BSB

There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 16:18BSB

You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.

Significance

Amos 5:10 denounces those who "hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity," directly contradicting Deuteronomy 16:18's command to appoint judges in the gates (שְׁעָרֶיךָ, she'arekha) who would "judge the people with righteous judgment." The gate functioned as Israel's local courtroom where covenant disputes were adjudicated. Amos reveals that the institution Deuteronomy mandated for justice has been corrupted: those who speak truth (תָּמִים, tamim, "integrity") are hated rather than heeded, inverting the Deuteronomic vision of impartial justice.

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