Later text
Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
Intertextuality Pair
Echo
Later text
Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.
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.
In 1 Kings 8:28, Solomon pleads, "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." Psalm 106:44-46 records the fulfillment pattern: "Nevertheless He heard their cry (רִנָּתָם, rinnatam); He took note of their distress. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion (חֲסָדָיו, chasadav)." Both texts use the same theological framework of divine hearing in response to human distress. Solomon's prayer anticipates the cycle of sin, suffering, and divine compassion that Psalm 106 retrospectively narrates across Israel's history.