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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 8:17-18 → 1 Kings 9:26-27

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 8:17-18BSB

Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom. So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon's servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

Earlier text

1 Kings 9:26-27BSB

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea. And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon's servants.

Significance

These are parallel accounts of Solomon's Ophir gold trade via the port at Ezion-geber. Both texts describe the Tyrian-Israelite maritime partnership, with 1 Kings 9:26-27 noting that Hiram sent "his servants, men who knew the sea," alongside Solomon's men. The Chronicler reproduces this joint venture notice, demonstrating that Solomon's international trade network was enabled by Tyre's maritime expertise. The Red Sea commerce represents the fulfillment of the Abrahamic blessing reaching to distant nations through Solomon's kingdom at its zenith.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The Chronicler re-presents 1 Kings 9:26-27's fleet notice almost clause for clause: Solomon at Ezion-geber near Eloth on the coast of Edom, and Hiram supplying ships and "men who knew the sea" to serve alongside Solomon's servants (2 Chr 8:17-18) — the earlier canonical account of the temple-builder's Red Sea commerce carried forward into the Chronicler's retelling of the kingdom at its height for the post-exilic community.