Text: 1 Kings 8:15
OT Text Referred to: 2 Samuel 7:13
Subject: choosing a place and choosing David
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: 2 Sam 7:12-16 — The Davidic Covenant
Significance: In 1 Kings 8:15-21, Solomon declares that God has fulfilled (מִלֵּא, mille') His promise to David by enabling Solomon to build the temple. He explicitly references the Davidic covenant: "Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city... to build a house... but I chose David to be over My people." The allusion to 2 Samuel 7:13, where God promises David's offspring "will build a house for My name" (הוּא יִבְנֶה־בַּיִת לִשְׁמִי, hu' yivneh bayit lishmi), is made explicit — Solomon's dedication speech is framed as the fulfillment of the Nathan oracle. What God promised through Nathan, Solomon now declares accomplished.
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Text: 2 Samuel 7:13
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 8:15
Subject: choosing a place and choosing David
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment
Anchor Text: 2 Sam 7:12-16 — The Davidic Covenant
Significance: 2 Samuel 7:13 promises that David's son "will build a house for My Name." 1 Kings 8:15 opens Solomon's temple dedication by declaring: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and with His hand has fulfilled it" (בְּיָדוֹ מִלֵּא, beyado mille', "with his hand has fulfilled"). Solomon's dedication speech interprets the completed temple as proof of God's faithfulness to the Davidic covenant. The verbal phrase connecting divine speaking (בְּפִיו דִּבֶּר, befiv dibber) and divine fulfilling (beyado mille') in 1 Kings 8:15 frames the temple as the concrete realization of 2 Samuel 7's oracle. Solomon also adds a detail absent from the Nathan oracle: God chose Jerusalem (1 Kgs 8:16), linking the election of David with the election of Zion.