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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 3:1-2 → 1 Kings 6:1

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 3:1-2BSB

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.

Earlier text

1 Kings 6:1BSB

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the month of Ziv, the second month of the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, he began to build the house of the LORD.

Significance

Both texts date the temple's construction to Solomon's fourth year, but the Chronicler adds a theologically significant detail absent from Kings: the temple was built on Mount Moriah (har ha-Moriyyah), "where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite" (2 Chr 3:1). This connects the temple site to Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22:2) and David's altar after the plague (1 Chr 21), layering the temple location with sacrificial associations stretching back to the patriarchs. The name "Moriah" (הַר הַמּוֹרִיָּה, har hammoriyyah) occurs nowhere else in Scripture outside Genesis 22, sealing the temple-Aqedah link.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 3

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