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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

Psalm 106:44-46 → 1 Kings 8:50

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:44-46BSB

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 8:50BSB

May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.

Significance

In 1 Kings 8:50, Solomon prays, "May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You... and may You grant them compassion (רַחֲמִים, rachamim) in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy." Psalm 106:44-46 describes this very scenario in retrospect: God "heard their cry... remembered His covenant... He made them objects of compassion (רַחֲמִים) to all who held them captive." The shared vocabulary of compassion (רַחֲמִים) and the identical pattern — sin, captivity, prayer, divine compassion through captors — shows how Psalm 106 interprets Israel's exile experience through the theological framework Solomon established in his dedication prayer.

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

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