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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 6:18 → 1 Kings 8:27

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:18BSB

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Earlier text

1 Kings 8:27BSB

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Significance

Both 2 Chronicles 6:18 and 1 Kings 8:27 preserve Solomon's identical rhetorical question: "But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You" (hinne hashamayim ushemei hashamayim lo yekhalkhelukha). This statement of divine transcendence within a temple dedication prayer creates a deliberate theological tension: the God who cannot be contained by the cosmos graciously chooses to make His Name dwell in this particular house. Solomon's paradox becomes foundational for Israel's temple theology, holding together God's infinite majesty with His covenantal nearness.

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

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 4