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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 7:13-14 → 2 Samuel 7:13-16

Echo

Later text

Daniel 7:13-14BSB

In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence. And He was given dominion, glory, and kingship, that the people of every nation and language should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Earlier text

2 Samuel 7:13-16BSB

He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way. Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever."

Significance

The Davidic covenant promises a descendant whose throne God will "establish... forever," a kingdom that will "endure forever before Me; your throne will be established forever" (2 Sam 7:13, 16). Daniel 7:13-14 restates that everlasting kingdom in apocalyptic terms: the Son of Man receives "an everlasting dominion that will not pass away" and "a kingdom that will never be destroyed." The shared keynote is the perpetuity of a single representative ruler's reign — the Davidic "forever" reappears as Daniel's "everlasting." The connection is a longitudinal and redemptive-historical echo rather than a citation: Daniel does not quote 2 Samuel, but the indestructible kingdom granted to the Son of Man advances and universalizes the dynastic promise made to David, expanding it from rule over Israel to dominion over "the people of every nation and language." Thus the NT can hold Davidic Christology (the Son of David, 2 Sam 7) and Danielic Christology (the Son of Man) together without strain — both name the one King whose reign has no end (cf. Luke 1:32-33). The telos is the eternal King in whom the covenant promise to David finds its sure and desirable fulfillment: not a throne that disappoints like the failed Davidic line, but the Son of Man whose everlasting dominion is the joy and security of all who serve Him.

Found via: Beale & Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Baker, 2007); standard discussions of Daniel 7 and the Davidic covenant
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Redemptive-Historical Progression

▸ The Davidic Covenant ▸ The Son of Man Receiving Dominion

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Anchor Texts 2

Daniel 7:13-14 → 2 Samuel 7:13-16

Significance

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