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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 19:5-7 → Deuteronomy 1:17

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 19:5-7BSB

He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah. Then he said to the judges, "Consider carefully what you do, for you are not judging for man, but for the LORD, who is with you when you render judgment. And now, may the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery."

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 commands judges to show no partiality because "judgment belongs to God" (הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים הוּא, hammishpat le'lohim hu), and Jehoshaphat echoes this principle verbatim when appointing judges throughout Judah: "you are not judging for man, but for the LORD." Both texts insist on impartiality, freedom from bribery, and equal hearing for small and great, showing that Jehoshaphat deliberately models his judicial reform on the Mosaic prototype. The Chronicler presents Jehoshaphat's reform as covenant faithfulness—implementing in the monarchy what Moses instituted in the wilderness, thereby affirming that righteous judgment remains a divine prerogative mediated through human courts.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Deuteronomy 1:17's charge to "show no partiality in judging," to "hear both small and great alike," and to fear no man because "judgment belongs to God" reappears point for point in Jehoshaphat's commissioning of judges, for "with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery" (2 Chr 19:7) — the monarchy institutionalizing the wilderness charter within the one developing theme of God's own justice mediated through human courts, which comes to fullness in Christ the righteous Judge.