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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 11:15 → Leviticus 17:7

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 11:15BSB

And Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat demons and calf idols he had made.

Earlier text

Leviticus 17:7BSB

They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.'

Significance

Leviticus 17:7 prohibits Israel from sacrificing to שְׂעִירִם (se'irim, "goat demons"), the very practice that centralized worship was designed to prevent. 2 Chronicles 11:15 records that Jeroboam "appointed his own priests for the high places, for the goat demons (שְׂעִירִים), and for the calves he had made" — a direct violation of this prohibition. The Chronicler uses the identical Hebrew term to establish that Jeroboam's northern cult constituted exactly the idolatrous regression that Leviticus 17 warned against. The faithful Levites who abandoned the northern kingdom and came to Judah (2 Chr 11:13-14) are thus presented as upholding the Levitical prohibition while Jeroboam deliberately contravened it.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme