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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

Zechariah 14:4 → 2 Samuel 15:30

Echo

Later text

Zechariah 14:4BSB

On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half the mountain moving to the north and half to the south.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 15:30BSB

But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

Significance

Both texts share the Mount of Olives as a place of profound theological significance — though not a verbatim place-name: 2 Samuel 15:30 reads מַעֲלֵה הַזֵּיתִים (the ascent of the Olives), Zechariah 14:4 הַר הַזֵּיתִים (the Mount of Olives), and the one shared lexeme is זַיִת (H2132). In 2 Samuel 15:30, David ascends the Mount of Olives weeping, barefoot, and with his head covered, fleeing from Absalom's rebellion — the anointed king rejected and expelled from Jerusalem. Zechariah 14:4 envisions the LORD standing on the Mount of Olives on the eschatological day of battle, when the mountain will split in two, creating a great valley. The shared geographic reference creates a striking contrast: where David ascended in humiliation and exile, the LORD will descend in power and judgment. This echo frames the Mount of Olives as a site where divine kingship themes of rejection and vindication converge.

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

Linked Mentions 1

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Absalom (The Rebellious Son) Trajectory Table