Text: 2 Chronicles 7:19-22
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 28:37
Subject: Israel becomes a proverb and byword among nations
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: God warns Solomon that if Israel forsakes His statutes, "I will uproot them from My land" and the temple will become "a proverb and a byword among all 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 a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples" (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.