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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

Psalms 72:10-11 → 1 Kings 4:21

Allusion

Later text

Psalms 72:10-11BSB

May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts. May all kings bow down to him and all nations serve him.

Earlier text

1 Kings 4:21BSB

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Significance

Psalm 72:10-11 envisions "the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands will pay tribute (מִנְחָה, minchah); the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring gifts. All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him." 1 Kings 4:21 records Solomon's partial realization: "Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute (מִנְחָה, minchah) and served Solomon all the days of his life." The shared term minchah ("tribute/gift") connects the psalm's ideal vision of universal submission to Solomon's historical experience of regional dominion. Solomon's reign partially fulfilled but did not exhaust the psalm's universal scope, which extends to the "coastlands" and "ends of the earth."

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

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