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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 4:24-31 → Genesis 46:10

Allusion

Later text

1 Chronicles 4:24-31BSB

The descendants of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul. The sons of Shaul: Shallum, Mibsam, and Mishma. The sons of Mishma: Hammuel, Zaccur, and Shimei. Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children, so their whole clan did not become as numerous as the sons of Judah. They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.

Earlier text

Genesis 46:10BSB

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

Significance

The Chronicler's Simeonite genealogy (1 Chr 4:24-31) draws from Genesis 46:10's list of Simeon's sons who entered Egypt with Jacob. Both texts list Nemuel/Jemuel, Jamin, and Jarib/Jachin among Simeon's descendants, with name variants reflecting textual transmission differences. The Chronicler extends the genealogy far beyond Genesis 46's entry-to-Egypt list, tracing Simeon's descendants into the settlement period and noting their territorial expansion "until the reign of David" (1 Chr 4:31), connecting the patriarchal family to the monarchic era. The tribe's evident contraction by David's time also echoes Jacob's oracle that Simeon would be scattered in Israel (Gen 49:7).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Genesis 46:10's entry-to-Egypt list of Simeon's sons is the root the Chronicler extends through the settlement era down to David's reign (1 Chr 4:24-31); the register tracks the tribe's contraction — echoing Jacob's oracle of scattering (Gen 49:7) — as one strand inside the forward movement of Israel's history toward its Davidic center.