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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 24:15 → Genesis 25:8

Echo

Later text

2 Chronicles 24:15BSB

When Jehoiada was old and full of years, he died at the age of 130.

Earlier text

Genesis 25:8BSB

And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

Significance

The Chronicler describes Jehoiada's death with the formulaic phrase "old and full of years" (זָקֵן וּשְׂבַע יָמִים, zaqen us'va' yamim), echoing the same expression used for Abraham in Genesis 25:8 (שָׂבֵעַ, save'a, "contented/full"). This death formula is reserved in Scripture for figures of exceptional faithfulness — Abraham, Isaac (Gen 35:29), David (1 Chr 29:28), and Jehoiada — signaling divine favor and a life brought to satisfying completion. The Chronicler's deliberate use of patriarchal language for Jehoiada elevates this priest-reformer to Abrahamic stature, reinforced by his unprecedented honor of burial among the kings (2 Chr 24:16), implying that covenant faithfulness in any era merits the same divine approbation given to the fathers.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy — the Chronicler describes Jehoiada's death in the patriarchal idiom of Genesis 25:8: the priest dies "old and full of years" (2 Chr 24:15) as Abraham died "old and contented" at the close of a completed life, and the unprecedented burial "with the kings in the City of David" (24:16) presses the likeness home — as God crowned the covenant-faithful patriarch with a satisfied death, so He honors the covenant-faithful priest who preserved David's line for the coming King.