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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Isaiah 56:6-7 → 2 Chronicles 6:32-33

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 56:6-7BSB

And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant— I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations."

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 6:32-33BSB

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple, then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

Significance

Solomon's prayer for the foreigner (nokhri) who comes to the temple because of God's "great name" (2 Chr 6:32-33) finds prophetic development in Isaiah 56:6-7, where God promises that foreigners who "join themselves to the LORD" will be brought to His "holy mountain" and their offerings accepted, "for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations" (beit tefillah le-khol ha-ammim). Both texts envision the temple as a site of gentile worship, but Isaiah 56 expands Solomon's petition into an eschatological promise of universal inclusion in Israel's worship.

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

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Isaiah 56:7 — House of Prayer