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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

2 Kings 18:7 → 1 Samuel 18:12

Echo

Later text

2 Kings 18:7BSB

And the LORD was with Hezekiah, and he prospered wherever he went. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to serve him.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 18:12BSB

So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

Significance

In 2 Kings 18:7, the narrator states "the LORD was with Hezekiah" (וַיְהִי יְהוָה עִמּוֹ, vayehi YHWH 'immo), and as a result "he prospered wherever he went." This echoes 1 Samuel 18:12, where Saul was afraid of David "because the LORD was with David" (כִּי הָיָה יְהוָה עִמּוֹ). The identical phrase — the LORD being "with" a leader — links Hezekiah to the young David as the paradigmatic king who enjoyed divine presence and consequently experienced success in all endeavors. This echo reinforces the narrator's comparison of Hezekiah to David as the gold standard of Judahite kingship.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the narrator applies the Davidic accompaniment formula ("the LORD was with him") to Hezekiah: as the LORD's presence marked young David over against rejected Saul, so it marks Hezekiah as the David-like king whose success flows from that presence