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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
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 30:2 → Numbers 9:9

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 30:2BSB

For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,

Earlier text

Numbers 9:9BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Significance

Numbers 9:9-11 provides a divine ruling that those unable to observe Passover at the appointed time (due to corpse contamination or being on a distant journey) may celebrate it on the fourteenth day of the second month instead. 2 Chronicles 30:2 records Hezekiah applying this very provision: "The king, his officials, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month" because insufficient priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not gathered in Jerusalem in time. Hezekiah's use of the Numbers 9 delayed-Passover provision demonstrates how wilderness legislation provided practical flexibility for later generations facing unforeseen circumstances.

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