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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

2 Chronicles 10:15 → 1 Kings 12:15

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 10:15BSB

So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from God, in order that the LORD might fulfill the word that He had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

Earlier text

1 Kings 12:15BSB

So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

Significance

Both 2 Chronicles 10:15 and 1 Kings 12:15 contain the identical theological explanation: "this turn of events was from God" (nesivvah/sibbah me'im ha-Elohim/YHWH) to fulfill Ahijah the Shilonite's prophecy to Jeroboam. This verse is the interpretive key to the division narrative, asserting that Rehoboam's foolish stubbornness was not mere political miscalculation but divinely orchestrated. Both texts agree that human decisions, even sinful ones, serve God's sovereign purposes announced through His prophets.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Promise-Fulfillment — the Chronicler takes over Kings' own interpretive notice ("this turn of events was from God," 2 Chr 10:15; "from the LORD," 1 Kgs 12:15), and what both verses assert is a promise-fulfillment claim: Rehoboam's refusal enacted the word the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, so the kingdom's division stands as sovereignly kept prophetic word within the history that preserves David's line.