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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 6:38 → Deuteronomy 12:5

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 6:38BSB

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,

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 12:5BSB

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

Significance

Solomon's exile petition envisions captives praying "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" (2 Chr 6:38). The tripartite directional focus—land, city, house—builds on Deuteronomy 12:5's single concept of "the place the LORD your God will choose." Solomon's formulation elaborates the Deuteronomic "chosen place" into a concentric geography of covenant identity: the promised land (erets), the chosen city (ir), and the Name-bearing temple (bayit). Even in exile, this directional prayer maintains the worshiper's covenantal orientation toward God's chosen dwelling.

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

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