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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 11:10 → 2 Samuel 23:8

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 11:10BSB

Now these were the chiefs of David's mighty men, who, together with all Israel, bolstered and strengthened his kingdom, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 23:8BSB

These are the names of David's mighty men: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite was chief of the Three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time.

Significance

Both texts introduce the catalog of David's mighty men (גִּבּוֹרִים, gibborim) with their chief warrior. 2 Samuel 23:8 names him Josheb-basshebeth the Tahchemonite, "chief of the Three," who "wielded his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed at one time." 1 Chronicles 11:10 provides the theological framing absent in Samuel: these warriors, "together with all Israel, bolstered and strengthened his kingdom, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel." The Chronicler thus interprets the mighty men not merely as military heroes but as instruments of divine purpose in establishing David's throne. Name and number variants between the two lists (Josheb-basshebeth vs. Jashobeam; 800 vs. 300 killed) reflect different textual traditions of the same warrior catalog.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Samuel's warrior catalog is retold under a new theological rubric: the chiefs "bolstered and strengthened his kingdom, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel" (1 Chr 11:10); the Chronicler advances the roster from military memoir to evidence that David's throne arose by divine word — the kingdom through which the history moves forward.