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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 Chronicles 10:1 → 1 Samuel 28:3

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 10:1BSB

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

Earlier text

1 Samuel 28:3BSB

Now by this time Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.

Significance

First Samuel 28:3 begins the narrative of Saul's consultation with the medium at Endor, while 1 Chronicles 10:1 opens the parallel account of Saul's final battle and death. The Chronicler provides the theological verdict on these events in 1 Chronicles 10:13-14: Saul died "for his unfaithfulness" (בְּמַעֲלוֹ אֲשֶׁר מָעַל, bema'alo asher ma'al) to the LORD, specifically for consulting a medium (אוֹב, ov) instead of inquiring of the LORD. While 1 Samuel narrates the events in detail, Chronicles interprets them theologically, explicitly connecting the necromancy of chapter 28 to the divine judgment of chapter 31.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Chronicles retells Samuel's history from its outcome: 1 Samuel 28 narrates Saul's recourse to the medium, and 1 Chr 10:13-14 renders the settled verdict — Saul died for his unfaithfulness (מַעַל) and the LORD "turned the kingdom over to David"; the later text advances the story to its divinely interpreted result, the transfer of the kingdom that carries redemptive history into the Davidic line.