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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

Jeremiah 23:24 → 2 Chronicles 6:18

Echo

Later text

Jeremiah 23:24BSB

"Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?" declares the LORD.

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 6:18BSB

But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

Significance

Solomon's declaration that "heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You" (2 Chr 6:18) echoes Jeremiah 23:24's divine question: "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" (halo et-hashamayim ve-et-ha-arets ani male). Both texts affirm divine omnipresence against any notion that God can be localized in a single structure. Solomon uses this theology to establish the paradox of temple worship—prayer is directed toward the temple, but God hears "from heaven, Your dwelling place" (min-hashamayim). Jeremiah applies the same principle to rebuke false prophets who think they can hide from God.

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