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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 → Exodus 34:6

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

Exodus 34:6BSB

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Significance

Solomon's address to God as the one "keeping Your covenant of loving devotion" (chesed) in 2 Chronicles 6:14 echoes the foundational divine self-revelation at Sinai in Exodus 34:6, where the LORD passes before Moses proclaiming Himself "abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness" (rav-chesed ve-emet). Both texts center on God's chesed as the basis for the divine-human relationship. Solomon's temple prayer invokes this Sinai-revealed character of God as the ground of confidence that the LORD will hear prayers directed toward the temple—the new locus of divine presence that continues the Sinai encounter.

Found via: No public domain commentary confirmation available
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Attribute Formula

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Name of God (Revelation of Divine Character) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 34:6-7 — The Attribute Formula

2 Chronicles 6:14 → Exodus 34:6

Significance

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