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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 18:14 → 2 Samuel 20:23

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 18:14BSB

Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:

Earlier text

2 Samuel 20:23BSB

Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel; Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites;

Significance

Both texts list the administrative officers of David's kingdom, beginning with the summary that David ruled over all Israel and administered מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה (mishpat utsdaqah, "justice and righteousness") for all his people. 2 Samuel 20:23-26 provides a later version of the officers list (after Absalom's and Sheba's rebellions), while 1 Chronicles 18:14 gives the earlier version paralleling 2 Samuel 8:15. The slight variations in personnel — including the addition of Ira the Jairite as priest in 2 Samuel 20:26 — reflect changes in David's administration over time. The Chronicler's placement of the list immediately after the military victories emphasizes David's kingdom as one characterized by both military strength and just governance.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — two stations of the same documented administration: Samuel's later officer roster (after the rebellions) and the Chronicler's earlier-form list both hang on David's rule of justice and righteousness; the paired records track the ordered kingdom as it is carried forward in time — the just Davidic administration through which the history advances.