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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 → Joshua 19:1-5

Quotation

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

Joshua 19:1-5BSB

The second lot came out for the clans of the tribe of Simeon: Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem, Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,

Significance

First Chronicles 4:24-31 reproduces the Simeonite city list from Joshua 19:1-5 with only minor spelling variations (e.g., Bethul/Bethuel, Ether/Tochen), confirming that the Chronicler drew directly from Joshua's territorial records. Both lists name Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, and other Negev settlements as Simeonite holdings within the larger allotment of Judah. The Chronicler adds the note "These were their cities until the reign of David" (1 Chr 4:31), providing a chronological endpoint that Joshua's original list lacked. This direct quotation demonstrates how later historiographers treated the conquest-era land distributions as authoritative records for establishing tribal identity and territorial claims.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler reproduces Joshua 19:1-5's Simeonite city list and extends it to the endpoint "These were their cities until the reign of David" (1 Chr 4:31); the conquest record is carried forward into the monarchic era, treating the earlier allotment as the authoritative base of the advancing national story.