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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

Haggai 2:3 → Ezra 3:12

Allusion

Later text

Haggai 2:3BSB

'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?'

Earlier text

Ezra 3:12BSB

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

Significance

Ezra 3:12 records that "many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly" (בְּכוֹ בְקוֹל גָּדוֹל) when they saw the foundation of the new temple. Haggai 2:3 asks the identical question: "Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory?" (בִּכְבוֹדוֹ הָרִאשׁוֹן). Both texts address the painful disparity between the remembered splendor of Solomon's temple and the diminished reality of the second. Haggai's response transcends this grief with the promise that "The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former" (2:9), a prophetic word that reframes the elders' weeping as premature since YHWH's plans for the second temple exceed what memory can compare.

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

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