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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 22:7-9 → 2 Kings 9:27-29

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 22:7-9BSB

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. So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them. Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu's soldiers captured him while he was hiding in Samaria. So Ahaziah was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, "He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." So no one was left from the house of Ahaziah with the strength to rule the kingdom.

Earlier text

2 Kings 9:27-29BSB

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. Then his servants carried him by chariot to Jerusalem and buried him with his fathers in his tomb in the City of David. (In the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.)

Significance

These are parallel accounts of Ahaziah's death during Jehu's purge of the house of Ahab. The accounts differ in geographical details — Kings places the killing near Ibleam/Megiddo, Chronicles describes Ahaziah hiding in Samaria — which may reflect different stages of the pursuit. The Chronicler adds that Ahaziah was given an honorable burial "because they said, 'He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart'" (2 Chr 22:9). This note reveals the Chronicler's concern for retributive justice tempered by ancestral merit — even a wicked king receives dignified treatment because of a righteous grandfather's legacy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — this parallel account re-presents 2 Kings 9:27-29 in the Chronicler's ongoing history, adding the honorable burial granted because "He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart" (2 Chr 22:9); the retelling advances the canonical story by weighing Ahaziah's end against both the judgment on the house of Ahab and the remembered faithfulness of Jehoshaphat, as God steers Judah's compromised throne toward His covenant purpose.