Text: 2 Chronicles 7:20
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 28:37
Subject: Becoming a proverb among the nations
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: God's threat to make Israel "a proverb and a byword among all 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.