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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 7:11 → Leviticus 26:41

Echo

Later text

2 Chronicles 7:11BSB

When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:41BSB

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

Significance

Leviticus 26:41 conditions restoration on humbled hearts, using the language of uncircumcised hearts (לְבָבָם הֶעָרֵל) being brought low and acceptance of covenant punishment. 2 Chronicles 7:14 restates this condition at the temple dedication: "If My people humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways." The Chronicler's placement of this restoration formula immediately after Solomon's temple completion (7:11) creates a prophetic framework: the temple itself, while magnificent, will not prevent judgment — only the heart-humbling prescribed in Leviticus 26 will activate divine forgiveness and land-healing. The conditional "if" in both texts preserves the covenantal dynamic where restoration requires genuine repentance, not merely ritual observance.

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