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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

Daniel 1:2 → 2 Kings 24:13

Allusion

Later text

Daniel 1:2BSB

And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.

Earlier text

2 Kings 24:13BSB

As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD.

Significance

Daniel 1:2 reports that Nebuchadnezzar carried כְּלֵי (kelei, "articles/vessels") from the בֵּית הָאֱלֹהִים (beit ha-elohim, "house of God") to the temple of his god in Shinar. 2 Kings 24:13 provides the parallel historiographical account: Nebuchadnezzar "carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD" and "cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple." Daniel's account emphasizes the theological dimension by noting the destination was "the land of Shinar" -- recalling Genesis 11's Babel -- while 2 Kings focuses on the Solomonic treasures destroyed. Together they present the temple plunder as both historical fact and symbolic reversal of Solomon's glory.

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

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