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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 30:18-20 → Numbers 9:10

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 30:18-20BSB

A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, "May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary." And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Earlier text

Numbers 9:10BSB

"Tell the Israelites: 'When any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

Significance

Numbers 9:10 provides the legal basis for Passover participation by those who are ritually unclean, prescribing a second-month alternative. 2 Chronicles 30:18-20 extends this principle when Hezekiah allows unpurified worshipers from the northern tribes to eat the Passover and prays: "May the LORD, who is good, grant atonement to everyone who sets his heart on seeking God, the LORD God of his fathers, even if not according to the sanctuary's rules of cleanness." God's favorable response (v. 20, "the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people") suggests that the Numbers provision's underlying principle -- that sincere worship should not be prevented by ritual disqualification -- can be extended beyond its original parameters when a covenant-faithful leader intercedes.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy