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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 19:8 → Deuteronomy 1:17

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 19:8BSB

Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

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's charge that difficult cases be brought to him for adjudication finds institutional expression when Jehoshaphat appoints Levites, priests, and heads of families in Jerusalem to serve as a central court. Both passages address the same structural problem—the need for higher judicial authority when local judges face cases beyond their competence. Jehoshaphat's court functions as the monarchic implementation of the Deuteronomic principle that judgment ultimately belongs to God (הַמִּשְׁפָּט לֵאלֹהִים, hammishpat le'lohim), mediated through designated human representatives.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Moses's provision "bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it" (Deut 1:17) develops into Jehoshaphat's standing central court of Levites, priests, and family heads appointed in Jerusalem "to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes" (2 Chr 19:8) — one continuing theme of higher, God-owned adjudication moving from a single mediator to an ordered institution, and finally to the Judge of all.