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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 29:23 → 1 Kings 2:12

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 29:23BSB

So Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of his father David. He prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.

Earlier text

1 Kings 2:12BSB

So Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established.

Significance

Both texts record Solomon taking David's throne, but with a striking theological difference. In 1 Kings 2:12, "Solomon sat on the throne of his father David, and his kingdom was firmly established" — a straightforwardly political statement. The Chronicler in 1 Chronicles 29:23 reframes the same event: "Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD (כִּסֵּא יְהוָה, kisse' YHWH) as king in place of his father David." By calling it "the throne of the LORD" rather than "the throne of David," the Chronicler makes explicit what Kings leaves implicit: Israel's kingship is a delegated rule under divine sovereignty. Solomon does not merely succeed David; he occupies Yahweh's own throne as His earthly vice-regent.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler retells Solomon's enthronement with the source's claim theologically advanced: the throne of his father David (1 Kgs 2:12) is named "the throne of the LORD" (1 Chr 29:23), making the Davidic monarchy explicitly the LORD's own delegated rule — the trajectory on which the Davidic throne runs toward the King who reigns at God's right hand.