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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

1 Kings 11:2 → Exodus 34:15

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 11:2BSB

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods." Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.

Earlier text

Exodus 34:15BSB

Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

Significance

In 1 Kings 11:2, the narrator states regarding Solomon's foreign wives: "These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.'" The warning the narrator recalls stands first at Exodus 34:15-16, where God warns at Sinai: "Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods (וְזָנוּ אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם, vezanu 'acharey 'eloheyhem) and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices." Solomon's marriages enact the scenario the Sinai covenant warned against — his "wives turned his heart after other gods" (1 Kings 11:4), the outcome Exodus 34:16 warned foreign marriages would bring. The link is the shared warning and its outcome, not shared wording: the "turn your hearts" idiom is not in Exodus 34.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — the Sinai warning that covenant with the peoples of the land would draw Israel into their gods' worship (Exodus 34:15-16) is realized in the narrator's verdict on Solomon: the quoted clause "surely they will turn your hearts after their gods" (1 Kings 11:2) comes true as his wives turn his heart and he follows Ashtoreth and Milcom (1 Kings 11:4-5), the threatened word of the covenant proving itself in Israel's wisest king.

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