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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 3:1-9 → 2 Samuel 3:13-16

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 3:1-9BSB

These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel; the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah by Abital; and the sixth was Ithream by his wife Eglah. These six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years, and these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. These four were born to him by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel. David's other sons were Ibhar, Elishua, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet—nine in all. These were all the sons of David, besides the sons by his concubines. And Tamar was their sister.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 3:13-16BSB

“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.” Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.” So Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel son of Laish. Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he returned home.

Significance

The Chronicler's list of David's sons born in Hebron and Jerusalem (1 Chr 3:1-9) parallels 2 Samuel 3:13-16, which narrates David's demand for the return of Michal, Saul's daughter. The 2 Samuel context focuses on the political dynamics of David's marriages during the Hebron period, while the Chronicler distills this into a clean genealogical record. Both texts attest to the multiplying of David's house (bayit) as God promised through Nathan, though the Chronicler omits the narrative complications surrounding Michal and the weeping Paltiel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None — retained on adjudication: no demonstrable intertextual link. 1 Chronicles 3:1-9 reproduces the Hebron birth-roster of 2 Samuel 3:2-5 (see the sibling pair), but 2 Samuel 3:13-16 narrates the return of Michal, who appears nowhere in the Chronicler's roster — she bore no sons (2 Sam 6:23) and the Chronicler omits her story entirely. The two texts share only the Hebron setting, not wording, allusion, or a developed theme; the cross-reference rests on narrative proximity, and no method of connection is warranted where no textual connection is demonstrated.