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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

1 Kings 1:7 → 2 Samuel 3:4

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 1:7BSB

So Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, who supported him.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 3:4BSB

his fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith; his fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

Significance

In 1 Kings 1:7, Adonijah confers with Joab and Abiathar the priest, who support his claim to the throne. The reference back to 2 Samuel 3:4, where Adonijah is listed as the fourth son born in Hebron, explains why these older power brokers backed him — Joab had served David since the Hebron period and Abiathar since David's flight from Saul, making them natural allies of the eldest surviving prince from those early years. The text implicitly contrasts human political loyalty rooted in seniority with the divine choice of Solomon, who is conspicuously absent from the Hebron birth list altogether.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the political alignments of 1 Kings 1:7 grow out of the stage of David's story that 2 Samuel 3:4 records: Joab and Abiathar, companions of David since the Hebron years, back the eldest surviving prince of the Hebron birth-list, so the earlier chapter of the one narrative shapes the succession's factions — loyalty rooted in seniority that the account then sets under God's choice of Solomon.