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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 7:20 → Deuteronomy 28:37

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 7:20BSB

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.

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's threat to make Israel "an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples" (mashal u-shninah, 2 Chr 7:20) reproduces the Deuteronomic curse vocabulary from Deuteronomy 28:37 virtually verbatim. The Chronicler preserves this warning within the second divine appearance to Solomon, bracketing the temple's promise with covenant conditionality. For the post-exilic audience who had experienced the curse's fulfillment in Babylonian exile, this text simultaneously explained their past suffering and motivated present faithfulness, since the same conditional framework that brought judgment also promised restoration.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — 2 Chronicles 7:20 reproduces the curse vocabulary of Deuteronomy 28:37 ("an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples" answering "an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations"), God Himself re-speaking the Mosaic sanction over the temple He has just consecrated; the exile enacted the word, and for the post-exilic reader the same covenant framework that brought judgment holds out restoration — the curse finally answered at the cross.

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Babylonian Exile Trajectory Table