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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 11:1 → Deuteronomy 23:7

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 23:7BSB

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Significance

Deuteronomy 23:7 instructs Israel not to despise the Edomite ("for he is your brother") or the Egyptian ("because you lived as a foreigner in his land"), treating these nations more favorably than Ammon and Moab. Solomon's marriages to Edomite and Egyptian women in 1 Kings 11:1 thus involve nations whose assembly status was less restrictive — their third-generation descendants could enter the assembly (Deut 23:8). Yet even this more permissive framework did not authorize royal intermarriage, which the broader prohibition of Deuteronomy 7:3-4 and Exodus 34:15-16 forbade precisely because foreign wives would turn the king's heart after other gods, as indeed they did.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast — Deuteronomy 23:7 commands a measured generosity toward the Edomite and the Egyptian inside Torah's carefully graded boundaries, but Solomon's marriages to women of these nations (1 Kings 11:1) stand against that calibration: the law's relative leniency toward two peoples never authorized royal intermarriage, which the operative prohibitions (Deuteronomy 7:3-4; Exodus 34:15-16) forbade precisely because such wives would turn the king's heart — as the narrative records they did.