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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

Psalm 106:44 → 1 Kings 8:28

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:44BSB

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Earlier text

1 Kings 8:28BSB

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

Significance

Solomon asks God "to hear (שׁמע, shama) the cry (רִנָּה, rinnah) and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today" (1 Kings 8:28). Psalm 106:44 reports the answer in the same two words: "Nevertheless He heard (שׁמע) their cry (רִנָּתָם, rinnatham)." רִנָּה is a distinctive noun — a ringing shout, used of both joy and desperation — and its pairing with שׁמע in a petition-and-answer relation is what carries the link.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

The relation runs well past the single verse. Psalm 106:43-47 walks the seventh petition of Solomon's prayer (1 Kings 8:46-50) point for point: Israel sins and is given over to captors (106:43 // 8:46), they come to their senses and cry out (106:44 // 8:47), God remembers His covenant and relents in the abundance of His חֶסֶד (106:45 // 8:49-50), He grants them compassion before their captors (106:46 // 8:50), and the psalm's closing appeal — "Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations" (106:47) — is Solomon's request put back into the mouth of the exiles it was written for. The two adjacent verses carry the harder verbal evidence: Psalm 106:6 reproduces 1 Kings 8:47's three-verb confession verbatim (חטא / עוה / רשׁע), and Psalm 106:46 reproduces 1 Kings 8:50's clause with four shared lexemes (נתן + רַחֲמִים + לִפְנֵי + שׁבה). Psalm 106 is, in effect, Solomon's prayer written up as answered.

What makes it worth dwelling on is verse 43, immediately before: "Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity." The cry God hears in verse 44 is not the cry of the reformed. It is the cry of people who had already spent every rescue He gave them. The ground of the hearing is stated in verse 45 and it is not their sincerity — "He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion."

That is the confidence Hebrews urges: "let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" (Hebrews 4:16), because the one who intercedes there has already secured the hearing (1 John 5:14-15). The dedication prayer asked God to keep His eyes open toward a building; the psalm records that He kept His ears open toward people who deserved silence.

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