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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 19:1 → 2 Samuel 10:1

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 19:1BSB

Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 10:1BSB

Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

Significance

These are parallel accounts of the Ammonite-Aramean war that began when Hanun humiliated David's envoys. Both texts record that Hanun's princes counseled suspicion of David's חֶסֶד (chesed, "loyal kindness"), provoking the conflict. The Chronicler follows 2 Samuel closely but omits the broader Aramean campaign at Helam (2 Sam 10:15-19), compressing the narrative to focus on the initial dual-front battle under Joab and Abishai. This editorial choice reflects Chronicles' interest in David's military victories as establishing the security necessary for temple preparations rather than detailing the geopolitical aftermath.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Ammonite-Aramean war is retold nearly verbatim but compressed (the Helam aftermath dropped), because in Chronicles the campaign functions as the securing of the kingdom on the eve of the temple preparations; the Samuel narrative is advanced into the Chronicler's temple-directed history.