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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

2 Chronicles 18:1 → 1 Kings 22:2

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 18:1BSB

Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and he allied himself with Ahab by marriage.

Earlier text

1 Kings 22:2BSB

However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to visit the king of Israel,

Significance

Both texts open the account of Jehoshaphat's alliance with Ahab for the campaign against Ramoth-gilead. In 1 Kings 22:2, Jehoshaphat "went down" to visit Ahab, while 2 Chronicles 18:1 adds the theological note that Jehoshaphat "allied himself with Ahab by marriage" (וַיִּתְחַתֵּן לְאַחְאָב, vayyitchatten le'Ach'av), identifying the political alliance as a marriage alliance. The Chronicler's addition explains the basis of the military cooperation and also sets up the prophetic rebuke that follows: "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?" (2 Chr 19:2). The two accounts together show how an innocent-seeming state visit had deep covenantal implications.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler carries forward the notice of 1 Kings 22:2 that Jehoshaphat "went down to visit the king of Israel," re-presenting it for the post-exilic community with the added disclosure that he "allied himself with Ahab by marriage" (2 Chr 18:1), a redactional note that names the covenantal root of the campaign and prepares for Jehu's rebuke, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?" (2 Chr 19:2).