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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 20:1 → 2 Samuel 11:1

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 20:1BSB

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 11:1BSB

In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

Significance

Both texts record the siege of Rabbah, the Ammonite capital, using the same opening formula about "the time when kings march out to war." In 2 Samuel 11:1, the phrase "but David remained in Jerusalem" sets up the Bathsheba narrative, while 1 Chronicles 20:1 states "but David remained in Jerusalem" and then immediately narrates Joab's military victory. The Chronicler preserves the same Hebrew phrasing but redirects the narrative focus from David's moral failure to the successful conquest, including David taking the crown (עֲטֶרֶת, ateret) of the Ammonite king. This parallel demonstrates how the same historical event is narrated with different theological emphases by different biblical authors.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — both open with the same spring-campaign formula and the same notice that "David remained in Jerusalem," but the Chronicler passes over the Bathsheba narrative and proceeds directly to Rabbah's fall; the retelling advances the account to what serves his post-exilic argument — the Davidic kingdom, chastened elsewhere (1 Chr 21), as the vessel of covenant hope.