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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 26:3 → 2 Kings 15:1

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 26:3BSB

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother's name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

Earlier text

2 Kings 15:1BSB

In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's reign over Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Uzziah/Azariah's reign (Kings uses "Azariah," Chronicles uses "Uzziah" — the same king with two names). Both record his 52-year reign beginning at age 16 and his positive evaluation. However, Kings gives Uzziah only seven verses, noting mainly that "the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died" (2 Kgs 15:5). The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 26:3-23 provides the crucial cause: Uzziah's heart grew proud (גָּבַהּ לִבּוֹ, gavah libbo; "his arrogance led to his own destruction," 2 Chr 26:16) and he entered the temple to burn incense, a priestly prerogative, resulting in divine judgment through leprosy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 26:3 re-presents the introduction of Azariah/Uzziah's fifty-two-year reign from 2 Kings 15:1-2 (same age, length, and mother Jecoliah of Jerusalem), and the Chronicler's fuller history goes on to supply what Kings leaves unexplained — why the LORD afflicted this successful king with leprosy — advancing the earlier canonical account with its cause in Uzziah's proud intrusion into the temple.