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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

2 Chronicles 11:1-4 → 1 Kings 12:21-24

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 11:1-4BSB

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God: "Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin that this is what the LORD says: 'You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.'" So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.

Earlier text

1 Kings 12:21-24BSB

And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon. But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: "Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people that this is what the LORD says: 'You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this word is from Me.'" So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.

Significance

These are parallel accounts of the prophet Shemaiah's oracle forbidding Rehoboam from fighting to restore the northern tribes. Both texts record the prophetic word: "You are not to go up and fight against your brothers" (lo ta'alu velo tillachamu im acheikhem), and both note Rehoboam's obedience. The Chronicler follows 1 Kings 12:21-24 verbatim, preserving the prophetic intervention that prevented civil war. This episode demonstrates the Chronicler's emphasis on prophetic authority over royal decisions—the king's military plans must yield to the word of God delivered through His prophet.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 11:1-4 re-presents almost verbatim the Shemaiah episode of 1 Kings 12:21-24 (the 180,000 mustered warriors, "You are not to go up and fight against your brothers... for this word is from Me," and the obedient standing down), the Chronicler advancing the one canonical history in which God's prophetic word governs the Davidic king and preserves the divided people for the redemption still to come.