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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 2:1 → 1 Kings 5:15

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 2:1BSB

Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.

Earlier text

1 Kings 5:15BSB

Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,

Significance

Both texts open Solomon's temple-building preparations. The Chronicler's 2 Chronicles 2:1 states Solomon "purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD" (livnot bayit le-shem YHWH), while 1 Kings 5:15 (5:1 in English) begins with Hiram of Tyre sending servants to Solomon. The Chronicler foregrounds Solomon's intentionality and theological purpose (building for God's Name), while Kings focuses on the diplomatic context. This difference reflects the Chronicler's consistent emphasis on the temple as the theological center of Solomon's reign rather than the political achievement.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 2:1, "Solomon purposed to build a house for the Name of the LORD," re-opens in the Chronicler's later retelling the same temple-preparation narrative that 1 Kings 5 records, leading with the theological resolve (a house for the Name) that Kings unfolds through the Hiram negotiations — the one building project re-presented for the post-exilic community with the temple at the center of God's advancing purposes, which come to rest in the greater temple of Christ's body.