Later text
Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
Intertextuality Pair
2 Chronicles 36:7 → 2 Kings 24:13
Allusion
Earlier text
As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.
Significance
Both passages record the removal of temple vessels to Babylon. In 2 Kings 24:13, the gold articles Solomon made are "cut into pieces" — an act of deliberate desecration. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 36:7 records that Nebuchadnezzar "took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon." The Chronicler's detail about placement "in his temple" (בְּהֵיכָלוֹ, behekhalo) adds theological significance: Yahweh's vessels are placed in a pagan temple, symbolizing Israel's God apparently defeated by Babylon's gods — a humiliation reversed when Cyrus returns these very vessels (Ezra 1:7).
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Longitudinal Theme — the two texts belong to the one developing temple-vessels thread that runs through the canon: the gold articles "that Solomon king of Israel had made" are cut to pieces and carried off (2 Kgs 24:13), while the Chronicler tracks the articles from the house of the LORD into "his temple in Babylon" (2 Chr 36:7) — the same sacred objects whose story continues until Cyrus brings them out and sends them home (Ezra 1:7); made, exiled, and restored, the vessels carry the theme of God's dwelling among His people through judgment toward restoration.
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