Later text
Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
Intertextuality Pair
1 Chronicles 18:14 → 2 Samuel 8:15
Quotation
Earlier text
Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
Significance
Both texts share the identical summary statement: "David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness (מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה, mishpat utsdaqah) for all his people." This phrase echoes the ideal of kingship established in Deuteronomy and the royal psalms. The pairing of מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat, "justice") and צְדָקָה (tsedaqah, "righteousness") is a standard prophetic formula for just governance (cf. Isa 9:7; Jer 23:5). Both accounts place this assessment immediately after the military victories, establishing that David's kingdom was characterized not only by martial strength but by righteous administration — the very combination the prophets would later demand of Israel's kings.
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- Reference Type
- Direct Quotation
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression — the administration summary — "David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people" — is carried into Chronicles verbatim as the standard of the ideal kingdom; the Chronicler re-registers the source's assessment as the pattern of Davidic rule that prophecy projects onto the coming King (Isa 9:7; Jer 23:5).
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