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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 27:1 → 2 Kings 15:32

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 27:1BSB

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother's name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

Earlier text

2 Kings 15:32BSB

In the second year of the reign of Pekah son of Remaliah over Israel, Jotham son of Uzziah became king of Judah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Jotham's reign with the standard regnal formula: age 25, 16-year reign, mother Jerusha. Both give the positive evaluation: "he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD." Kings adds the qualification "the high places were not taken away" (2 Kgs 15:35), while Chronicles notes "he did not enter the temple of the LORD" (2 Chr 27:2) — a pointed reference to his father Uzziah's disastrous temple intrusion. Jotham learned from his father's pride: where Uzziah overreached into priestly territory, Jotham maintained proper royal boundaries.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 27:1 re-presents Jotham's regnal introduction from 2 Kings 15:32-33 (twenty-five at accession, sixteen years, mother Jerushah daughter of Zadok), and the Chronicler advances the account with his own note that Jotham "did not enter the temple of the LORD" (2 Chr 27:2) — the later history redefining royal righteousness against Uzziah's intrusion narrated in the previous chapter, as the Davidic line moves forward under God's discipline and preservation.