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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

1 Kings 9:20 → Deuteronomy 7:1

Allusion

Later text

1 Kings 9:20BSB

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:1BSB

When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Significance

In 1 Kings 9:20, Solomon conscripts as forced labor "all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites" — the same list of nations Deuteronomy 7:1 identifies as the peoples God would drive out before Israel. The presence of these peoples in Solomon's era shows that the conquest was never fully completed: Israel did not "devote them to complete destruction" as Deuteronomy 7:2 commanded but instead subjected them to forced labor (מַס עֹבֵד, mas 'oved). Solomon's policy of enslavement rather than expulsion represents a pragmatic but theologically significant departure from the Deuteronomic mandate of complete dispossession. This partial obedience proves consequential: the narrative's later chapters show it seeding the very syncretism and idolatry Moses warned that sparing these nations would produce (Deuteronomy 7:4), a pattern that comes to define Solomon's declining reign.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast — 1 Kings 9:20 reproduces Deuteronomy 7:1's roster of nations only to record their continued presence in Solomon's kingdom: the peoples God commanded Israel to devote to complete destruction (Deuteronomy 7:2) survive to be conscripted as forced labor. The reused nation-list sets the Deuteronomic mandate against the monarchy's actual practice, and the gap between command and achievement seeds the very syncretism Deuteronomy 7:4 warned coexistence would produce.