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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 19:5 → Deuteronomy 1:17

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 19:5BSB

He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 1:17BSB

Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it."

Significance

Moses charges Israel's judges to hear cases impartially because "judgment belongs to God" (הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים הוּא, hammishpat le'lohim hu), and Jehoshaphat implements this principle when he appoints judges in Judah's fortified cities. Both passages ground judicial authority in divine commission rather than human power. Jehoshaphat's instruction that judges act "for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment" directly restates the Deuteronomic rationale, demonstrating deliberate dependence on the Mosaic legal framework centuries later in the monarchy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Moses's wilderness charter that judges show no partiality because "judgment belongs to God" (Deut 1:17) and Jehoshaphat's appointment of judges charged that "you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment" (2 Chr 19:6) are two stages of the one developing theme of God-owned judgment administered through appointed men — a line that runs from the wilderness bench through the monarchy and ultimately to Christ, to whom all judgment is entrusted.