The Hyperlinked Bible
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
Earlier text
1 Kings 8:29BSB
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
In 1 Kings 8:29, Solomon asks God to keep His eyes open toward the temple night and day — "the place of which You said, 'My name shall be there'" — so that He would hear prayers directed toward it. Nehemiah 1:8-9 demonstrates this practice in action centuries later: Nehemiah, in exile, invokes the Mosaic promise that if Israel returns to God, "even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name." Nehemiah's prayer is the living fulfillment of Solomon's petition — an exile praying toward the destroyed temple, appealing to the very framework Solomon established at the dedication.