Text: Psalms 72:10-11
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 4:21
Subject: Royal tribute (B)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology
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."
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Text: 1 Kings 4:21
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 72:10-11
Subject: Foreign kings bring tribute to Solomon
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: In 1 Kings 4:21, Solomon rules over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to Egypt, and "they brought tribute (מִנְחָה, minchah) and served Solomon all the days of his life." Psalm 72:10-11, attributed to Solomon, envisions this same reality in poetic and eschatological terms: "The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands will bring tribute; the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts. All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him." The historical reality of Solomon's reign described in Kings corresponds to the idealized vision of Psalm 72, though the psalm's scope — "all kings" and "all nations" — exceeds any historical fulfillment and points to a greater royal figure whose dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
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Text: 1 Kings 4:21
OT Text Referred to: Psalm 72:10
Subject: all kings bring tribute and serve
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: In 1 Kings 4:21, all the surrounding kingdoms bring tribute to Solomon. Psalm 72:10 envisions a similar scene: "The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands will bring tribute (מִנְחָה, minchah); the kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts." The psalm's language draws from and amplifies the historical reality of Solomon's reign, transforming the geographically bounded tribute system into a universal vision of all nations honoring the ideal Davidic king. Solomon's actual dominion over the Euphrates-to-Egypt corridor provides the experiential basis for the psalm's eschatological hope of worldwide royal authority.