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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 6:22-23 → Exodus 22:7-11

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:22-23BSB

When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple, then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

Earlier text

Exodus 22:7-11BSB

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor's property. In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, 'This is mine,' both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor. If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching, an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighbor's property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.

Significance

Solomon's first petition envisions a scenario where "a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath" (2 Chr 6:22), and he comes before the altar in the temple to swear. This alludes to Exodus 22:7-11's legal procedure where disputed property cases are brought "before the judges" (el-ha-Elohim, literally "before God") for oath-taking and adjudication. Solomon's prayer transforms the Mosaic judicial procedure into a temple-centered institution, directing litigants to bring their oaths to the central sanctuary where God's Name dwells, rather than to local shrines or judges.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Exodus 22:7-11's rule that disputed cases be settled by "an oath before the LORD" (Exod 22:11) and Solomon's plea that oaths sworn "before Your altar in this temple" be answered when God "judge[s] Your servants, condemning the wicked man... and justifying the righteous man" (2 Chr 6:22-23) belong to one developing theme of God the oath-hearing Judge whose sanctuary adjudicates between wicked and righteous — a thread that runs to the Judge of all the earth who justifies the ungodly at the cost of His own Son.