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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 6:14 → Deuteronomy 7:9

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:14BSB

and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 7:9BSB

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Significance

Solomon's prayer addresses God as the one "who keeps covenant and steadfast love" (shomer habberit vehachesed, 2 Chr 6:14), echoing Deuteronomy 7:9's confession: "the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love" (shomer habberit vehachesed). The shared formula shomer habberit vehachesed is a fixed covenantal expression. Solomon's use of this Deuteronomic language in the temple dedication prayer grounds the new sanctuary in Mosaic covenant theology, presenting the temple not as an innovation but as the institutional outworking of the Sinai relationship.

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