Text: 2 Chronicles 21:13
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 34:16
Subject: Jehoram causes Judah to whore after other gods
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Elijah's letter accuses Jehoram of causing Judah to "whore" (hiznah) after other gods (2 Chr 21:13), using the same sexual-idolatry metaphor that Exodus 34:16 warns against: "their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and make your sons prostitute themselves" (ve-zanu venotav acharei eloheihen). Both texts use the root zanah ("prostitute/whore") to describe covenant infidelity as spiritual adultery. The Chronicler's use of Mosaic warning language in a prophetic indictment shows Jehoram violating the very covenant stipulations Israel agreed to at Sinai, particularly the prohibition against intermarriage that leads to idolatry.
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Text: Exodus 34:16
OT Text Referred to: 2 Chronicles 21:13
Subject: intermarriage leading to spiritual prostitution
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Exodus 34:16 warns that foreign wives "will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same" (וְהִזְנוּ בְנֹתָיו, ve-hiznu venotav), using the verb זנה (zanah, "to prostitute"). Elijah's letter to Jehoram in 2 Chronicles 21:13 employs the same language, charging the king with having "caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves" (וַתַּזְנֶה, vattazneh) after marrying a daughter of Ahab (v. 6). The Chronicler presents Jehoram as the precise fulfillment of Moses' warning: his intermarriage with Ahab's house led directly to idolatry and the corruption of the entire kingdom, demonstrating that the Sinai prohibition was not abstract but prophetically anticipated exactly this kind of royal apostasy.