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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 2:17-18 → 1 Kings 5:13-18

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 2:17-18BSB

Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all. Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

Earlier text

1 Kings 5:13-18BSB

Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel. He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers. And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. So Solomon's and Hiram's builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

Significance

Both texts detail the labor force assembled for temple construction. The Chronicler specifies that Solomon conscripted 153,600 resident aliens (gerim) as laborers, carriers, and overseers (2 Chr 2:17-18), while 1 Kings 5:13-18 records a levy of 30,000 Israelites plus 70,000 carriers and 80,000 stonecutters. The Chronicler's notable distinction is that the forced laborers were non-Israelite aliens, not native citizens—a theological point that distances Solomon from the oppressive practices the northern tribes later cited as cause for secession (2 Chr 10:4).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The Chronicler re-presents the temple labor rolls of 1 Kings 5:13-18, identifying the conscripts as the 153,600 foreign men counted in the land since David's census (2 Chr 2:17-18) rather than Kings' Israelite levy, advancing the earlier record so that the house of the LORD rises without Israel's own enslavement — a shadow of the true temple, built not by conscription but by the Servant who freely gives His life.