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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
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Intertextuality Pair

1 Chronicles 14:3-7 → 2 Samuel 5:13-16

Quotation

Later text

1 Chronicles 14:3-7BSB

And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters. These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 5:13-16BSB

After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him. These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.

Significance

Both texts list David's sons born in Jerusalem after he moved the capital from Hebron. 2 Samuel 5:14-16 names eleven sons, while 1 Chronicles 14:4-7 lists thirteen, adding Eliphelet and Nogah, which likely reflect different manuscript traditions of the royal birth register. The two lists share the names Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon — notably placing Solomon fourth rather than first, indicating that birth order did not determine succession. Both registers include theophoric names (containing אֵל, El, "God") such as Elishua, Eliada/Beeliada, and Eliphelet, reflecting the royal household's theological naming conventions that acknowledged divine sovereignty over the dynasty.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Jerusalem birth-roster is retold from Samuel into the Chronicler's register, with Solomon among the sons; the list's re-presentation documents the growth of the house through which the dynastic promise moves, serving the advance from David's household to the covenant line.

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

New Jerusalem (Ultimate Temple-City) Trajectory Table