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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 7:19-22 → Deuteronomy 28:37

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 7:19-22BSB

But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?' And others will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.'"

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 28:37BSB

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Significance

God warns Solomon that if Israel forsakes His statutes, "I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them" and the temple will become "an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples" (mashal u-shninah be-khol ha-ammim, 2 Chr 7:20). This warning directly echoes Deuteronomy 28:37's covenant curse: "You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations" (mashal veli-shninah). The shared vocabulary mashal and shninah links God's Solomonic warning to the Mosaic covenant curse, demonstrating that even the glorious temple remains subject to the Deuteronomic covenant conditions of obedience and disobedience.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — In God's night answer the Deuteronomic curse-word is re-spoken over land and temple: "an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples" (2 Chr 7:20) takes up Deuteronomy 28:37's "an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations," committing the covenant sanction to certain effect if Israel forsakes Him — a word the exile proved true, and whose curse Christ bore to win the covenant's blessing for His people.