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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 12:28 → Exodus 32:4

Quotation

Later text

1 Kings 12:28BSB

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, "Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

Earlier text

Exodus 32:4BSB

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, "These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!"

Significance

Exodus 32:4 records the people declaring before Aaron's calf: "These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt" (אֵלֶּה אֱלֹהֶיךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל, elleh elohekha yisra'el). 1 Kings 12:28 records Jeroboam using virtually the same formula when erecting golden calves at Bethel and Dan. The verbatim repetition is the Deuteronomistic historian's deliberate indictment: Jeroboam's sin is not merely idolatry but a calculated recapitulation of the wilderness apostasy. By echoing the exact words of Exodus 32, the narrator signals that the northern kingdom was founded on the same sin that nearly destroyed Israel at Sinai—the substitution of a visible image for the invisible God who brought them out of Egypt.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy

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