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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 9:29-31 → 1 Kings 11:41-43

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 9:29-31BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Solomon, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Earlier text

1 Kings 11:41-43BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon? Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. And Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. And his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

Significance

Both texts record Solomon's death and burial with the standard regnal closure formula: reign length, source references, and succession by Rehoboam. The Chronicler cites three prophetic sources—"the Records of Nathan the Prophet, in the Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the Visions of Iddo the Seer" (2 Chr 9:29)—while 1 Kings 11:41 references "the Book of the Acts of Solomon." The most significant difference is what immediately precedes: 1 Kings 11 devotes forty verses to Solomon's apostasy, foreign wives, and divine judgment, all of which the Chronicler omits entirely. Solomon's story in Chronicles ends at the apex of glory, preserving the temple-builder's legacy without the tragic fall. The Chronicler's replacement of Kings' single royal annal ("the Book of the Acts of Solomon") with three prophetic records reflects his conviction that prophetic authority is the lens through which kingship must be evaluated, even as both accounts close with the identical regnal idiom "rested with his fathers" (וַיִּשְׁכַּב עִם־אֲבֹתָיו, vayyishkav 'im 'avotav).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The Chronicler re-presents 1 Kings 11:41-43's regnal closure with its core intact — forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel, "rested with his fathers," burial in the city of his father David, Rehoboam's succession — while substituting three prophetic records for Kings' royal annal and omitting the forty verses of apostasy that precede the formula in Kings, so that the post-exilic community receives Solomon's reign closed at its height and evaluated through the lens of the prophets.