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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Kings 21:3 → Deuteronomy 4:19

Allusion

Later text

2 Kings 21:3BSB

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 4:19BSB

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Significance

In 2 Kings 21:3, Manasseh "worshiped all the host of heaven and served them" (וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ לְכָל־צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם וַיַּעֲבֹד אֹתָם). Deuteronomy 4:19 explicitly warns against this: "When you look up to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars — all the host of heaven — do not be drawn into bowing down to them and serving them, things the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven." Manasseh's worship of astral deities directly violates this Deuteronomic prohibition. The contrast is stark: Moses warned Israel not to worship what God made for decoration and benefit; Manasseh built altars to these heavenly bodies inside the temple courts themselves.

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

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