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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

Zechariah 4:10 → 2 Chronicles 16:9

Allusion

Later text

Zechariah 4:10BSB

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 16:9BSB

For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”

Significance

The seer Hanani rebukes Asa with the declaration "the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him" (einei YHWH meshotetot be-khol ha-arets, 2 Chr 16:9). Zechariah 4:10 uses strikingly similar language: "these seven eyes of the LORD, which scan the whole earth" (einei YHWH hemmah meshotetim be-khol ha-arets). Both texts share the identical participial phrase meshotetot/meshotetim ("ranging throughout") applied to divine eyes surveying the earth. This shared imagery presents God as the all-seeing sovereign who actively seeks those loyal to Him—a warning to Asa and a comfort to Zechariah's post-exilic audience rebuilding the temple.

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

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