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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 10:26 → Deuteronomy 17:16

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 10:26BSB

Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 17:16BSB

But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, 'You are never to go back that way again.'

Significance

Deuteronomy 17:16 explicitly forbids Israel's future king from acquiring "many horses" (לֹא יַרְבֶּה לּוֹ סוּסִים, lo yarbeh lo susim) and from sending the people back to Egypt to obtain them. 1 Kings 10:26 records Solomon doing precisely this: he "accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses," with 10:28-29 specifying that horses were imported from Egypt. The narrator's careful documentation of Solomon's horse-accumulation against the explicit Deuteronomic prohibition invites the reader to recognize Solomon's violation of the king's torah. What Moses anticipated as a temptation of royal power, Solomon enacted as policy, illustrating how even the wisest king failed the Deuteronomic standard for faithful monarchy.

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

▸ The Law of the King

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 — The Law of the King

1 Kings 10:26 → Deuteronomy 17:16

Significance

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