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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 6:26 → Deuteronomy 28:23-24

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:26BSB

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 28:23-24BSB

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Significance

Solomon's third petition addresses drought: "When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You" (2 Chr 6:26). This directly invokes Deuteronomy 28:23-24's covenant curse where the sky becomes bronze and rain turns to dust. Solomon's prayer acknowledges drought as divine discipline for covenant violation but provides the remedy of repentance and prayer directed toward the temple. The petition assumes the Deuteronomic cause-and-effect theology while adding the temple as the focal point for seeking divine restoration of the land's fertility.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Solomon's petition takes up the covenant sanction of Deuteronomy 28:23-24 (sky like bronze, rain turned to dust) as a word certain to operate — "When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You" (2 Chr 6:26) — and prays the temple into that word's own framework as the appointed place where repentance meets restored rain, the covenant whose curse Christ exhausts and whose blessing He secures.