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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 → 2 Samuel 20:1

Allusion

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

2 Samuel 20:1BSB

Now a worthless man named Sheba son of Bichri, a Benjamite, happened to be there, and he blew the ram's horn and shouted: "We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse's son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!"

Significance

The northern tribes' cry at the division of the kingdom—"What portion do we have in David?" (2 Chr 10:16)—deliberately echoes Sheba son of Bicri's earlier rebellion cry in 2 Samuel 20:1: "We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse's son." The shared formula (ein-lanu cheleq be-David) reveals that the secession under Rehoboam was not unprecedented but followed a pattern of northern dissatisfaction that had surfaced even during David's reign. The Chronicler's audience would recognize this verbal echo as demonstrating that the kingdom's division had deep historical roots in tribal tensions predating Solomon's oppressive policies.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Longitudinal Theme — as Sheba son of Bichri sounded "We have no share in David, no inheritance in Jesse's son. Every man to his tent, O Israel!" (2 Sam 20:1), so the assembly at Shechem raises the same secession formula against Rehoboam (2 Chr 10:16), the later revolt patterned on the earlier; and the repeated anti-Davidic cry belongs to the one developing theme of rejecting the LORD's anointed king, a rejection that reaches its climax when Israel refuses great David's greater Son.