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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 8:15 → 2 Samuel 7:8

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 8:15BSB

and said: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,

Earlier text

2 Samuel 7:8BSB

Now then, you are to tell My servant David that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler over My people Israel.

Significance

In Solomon's dedication speech (1 Kgs 8:15-21), he recounts God's election of David: "I have chosen David to be over My people Israel." This alludes to 2 Samuel 7:8, where God says through Nathan, "I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be the ruler (נָגִיד, nagid) over My people Israel." Solomon's speech at the temple dedication interweaves God's choice of David (2 Sam 7:8) with God's choice of a place for His name — connecting the election of the Davidic dynasty with the election of Jerusalem and its temple as two facets of one divine purpose.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

Linked Mentions 6

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