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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 29:27-30 → 1 Kings 2:10-11

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 29:27-30BSB

The length of David's reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. He died at a ripe old age, full of years, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon reigned in his place. Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are indeed written in the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer, together with all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands.

Earlier text

1 Kings 2:10-11BSB

Then David rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. The length of David's reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Significance

These are parallel regnal summaries for David. Kings provides the bare formula: David rested with his fathers (וַיִּשְׁכַּב דָּוִד עִם־אֲבֹתָיו, vayyishkav David 'im 'avotav), was buried in the City of David, and reigned forty years. The Chronicler expands the closing with source citations ("the Chronicles of Samuel the Seer, the Chronicles of Nathan the Prophet, and the Chronicles of Gad the Seer") and a summary of David dying "at a ripe old age, full of years, riches, and honor" (1 Chr 29:28). Chronicles also uniquely adds that these sources recorded "all the details of his reign, his might, and the circumstances that came upon him and Israel and all the kingdoms of the lands" — presenting David's significance as international, not merely domestic.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the regnal summary is carried from Kings into the Chronicler's close and enlarged with prophetic source citations and the reign's international scope; the record is advanced from a burial notice to the sealed first chapter of the dynasty on which the rest of redemptive history in Chronicles is built.