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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
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Intertextuality Pair

1 Chronicles 28:7 → 2 Samuel 7:14

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 28:7BSB

I will establish his kingdom forever, if he resolutely carries out My commandments and ordinances, as is being done this day.'

Earlier text

2 Samuel 7:14BSB

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

Significance

2 Samuel 7:14 establishes the father-son relationship between God and the Davidic king: "I will be his Father, and he will be My son" (אֲנִי אֶהְיֶה לּוֹ לְאָב וְהוּא יִהְיֶה לִּי לְבֵן). 1 Chronicles 28:7 adds a conditional dimension absent from the original oracle: "I will establish his kingdom forever, if he continues to carry out My commandments and ordinances as he does today." The Chronicler reshapes the unconditional promise of 2 Samuel 7 by inserting the condition of ongoing Torah obedience (אִם יֶחֱזַק לַעֲשׂוֹת, im yechezaq la'asot, "if he is resolute to do"), which David then uses to exhort Solomon. This conditional reframing serves the Chronicler's pastoral purpose: the post-exilic community needed to understand that while the dynasty was irrevocable in principle, individual kings bore responsibility for obedience.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment

▸ The Davidic Covenant

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

2 Samuel 7:12-16 — The Davidic Covenant

1 Chronicles 28:7 → 2 Samuel 7:14

Significance

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