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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 10:16 → 1 Kings 12:16

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 10:16BSB

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!" So all the Israelites went home,

Earlier text

1 Kings 12:16BSB

When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!" So the Israelites went home,

Significance

Both 2 Chronicles 10:16 and 1 Kings 12:16 preserve the northern tribes' secessionist cry: "What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel!" (mah-lanu cheleq be-David). This cry echoes the earlier rebellion of Sheba son of Bicri (2 Sam 20:1), who used nearly identical language. The repetition of this anti-Davidic slogan across three texts (2 Sam 20, 1 Kgs 12, 2 Chr 10) shows it functioning as a formulaic expression of northern tribal independence sentiment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler reproduces verbatim Kings' record of the secession cry ("What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse?"), carrying forward the canonical account of the northern tribes' repudiation of the Davidic house — the house through which God had pledged the kingship that comes to rest on Christ.