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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 6:36-39 → Deuteronomy 4:27

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:36-39BSB

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near, and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, 'We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,' and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name, then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 4:27BSB

Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Significance

Solomon's seventh and final petition directly envisions exile: "When they sin against You...and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near" (2 Chr 6:36-37). This scenario echoes Deuteronomy 4:27's warning: "The LORD will scatter you among the peoples" (vehefits YHWH etkhem ba-ammim). Solomon's prayer provides the exilic remedy Deuteronomy anticipates: if the exiles repent "in the land of their captors" and pray toward the chosen land and city, God will hear from heaven. For the Chronicler's post-exilic audience, this petition was their lived reality—and its inclusion in the dedication prayer validated their return.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Deuteronomy 4:27's word, "the LORD will scatter you among the peoples," supplies the exact scenario of Solomon's final petition — captives delivered to an enemy and taken "to a land far or near" (2 Chr 6:36) — so the prayer builds the temple's provision for exiles on the covenant word's certain outworking, a word the Chronicler's returned community had lived through to its gracious reversal in the Christ who gathers the scattered children of God.