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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

1 Kings 11:1 → Deuteronomy 23:3

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 11:1BSB

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 23:3BSB

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

Significance

In 1 Kings 11:1, Solomon loves "women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon," while Deuteronomy 23:3 explicitly forbids Ammonites and Moabites from entering the assembly of the LORD (קְהַל יְהוָה, qehal YHWH) "even to the tenth generation." Solomon's marriages to women from these specifically excluded nations represent a royal transgression of the Torah's boundary laws — not merely intermarriage in general but union with the very peoples Moses had singled out for perpetual exclusion. The irony is sharp: the king charged with embodying Torah faithfulness instead embraced the nations Torah most emphatically set apart.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast — Deuteronomy 23:3 bars the Ammonite and Moabite from the assembly of the LORD "even to the tenth generation," while 1 Kings 11:1 records the king loving women of precisely these excluded peoples; the narrator sets royal practice against the Torah's most emphatic boundary law, and the tension between the king charged to embody Torah and his embrace of the nations Torah set apart drives the judgment that follows (1 Kings 11:9-13).

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Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom) Trajectory Table