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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 22:10 → 2 Kings 11:1

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 22:10BSB

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs of the house of Judah.

Earlier text

2 Kings 11:1BSB

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

Significance

Both texts open almost identically: "When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs" (2 Kgs 11:1; אֲבַד, 'avad). This is the most dangerous moment in the Davidic line's history — a non-Davidic usurper nearly extinguishes the messianic dynasty. Both accounts then record Jehosheba (called Jehoshabeath in Chronicles) hiding the infant Joash for six years. The Chronicler adds that Jehosheba was "the wife of Jehoiada the priest" (2 Chr 22:11), connecting the rescue to the priestly household and explaining how the child was concealed in the temple precincts.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 22:10 retells 2 Kings 11:1 almost verbatim, and the Chronicler's additions — "of the house of Judah" and Jehoshabeath's identity as "the wife of Jehoiada the priest" (22:11) — advance the earlier account by underscoring how near the messianic dynasty came to extinction and how God preserved the promise-line through one hidden child in the temple precincts.