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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 22:7 → 2 Kings 9:27

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 22:7BSB

Ahaziah's downfall came from God when he went to visit Joram. When Ahaziah arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.

Earlier text

2 Kings 9:27BSB

When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, "Shoot him too!" So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.

Significance

Both texts record Jehu's killing of Ahaziah, but with differing details about the location and circumstances. In 2 Kings 9:27, Ahaziah flees toward Beth-haggan and is struck by Jehu's men at the ascent of Gur near Ibleam, dying at Megiddo. In 2 Chronicles 22:7-9, Ahaziah is found hiding in Samaria, brought to Jehu, and killed. The Chronicler adds the theological verdict: "Ahaziah's downfall came from God" (מֵאֱלֹהִים, me'Elohim), interpreting the political assassination as divine judgment for his alliance with the house of Ahab.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 22:7 retells the death of Ahaziah from 2 Kings 9:27 within Jehu's divinely commissioned purge of the house of Ahab, advancing the earlier narrative with the interpretive verdict that "Ahaziah's downfall came from God": the Chronicler discloses the providential judgment behind the assassination Kings reports, carrying the canonical history of the Ahab-entangled Davidic house forward.