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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

Amos 5:12 → Deuteronomy 16:18

Allusion

Later text

Amos 5:12BSB

For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

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 5:12 accuses Israel of oppressing the righteous, taking bribes, and turning aside the needy "in the gate" (בַּשָּׁעַר, basha'ar), directly contravening Deuteronomy 16:18's command to appoint judges in every gate who would render righteous judgment without partiality. The shared vocabulary of gate-justice creates a clear intertextual link: the judicial institution Deuteronomy established has been systematically perverted. Amos's use of the same legal setting reveals that Israel's sin is not mere social decline but willful violation of the covenant justice system Yahweh had ordained for their communal life.

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