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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 Chronicles 22:1 → 2 Kings 8:25

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 22:1BSB

Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

Earlier text

2 Kings 8:25BSB

In the twelfth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Ahaziah of Judah's brief reign. Kings says he was 22 years old at accession; Chronicles says 42 — a well-known numerical discrepancy likely due to a scribal error. Both agree on his mother Athaliah (granddaughter of Omri), his evil conduct, and his alliance with Joram of Israel. The Chronicler adds the crucial theological note: "his mother was his counselor in wickedness" (2 Chr 22:3), and "he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father" (2 Chr 22:4) — making Athaliah's influence the explicit cause of his apostasy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 22:1 retells the accession notice of 2 Kings 8:25 within the Chronicler's ongoing canonical history, and his added note that "his mother was his counselor in wickedness" (2 Chr 22:3) advances the earlier account by tracing Ahaziah's evil to Athaliah — the Omride infection of the Davidic house that God's covenant purposes must, and do, survive on the way to the promised Son of David.