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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 30:2-3 → Numbers 9:9-11

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 30:2-3BSB

For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month, since they had been unable to observe it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.

Earlier text

Numbers 9:9-11BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, "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. Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

Significance

Numbers 9:9-11 establishes the second-month Passover provision: anyone unclean or on a distant journey may celebrate on the fourteenth day of the second month instead. 2 Chronicles 30:2-3 records Hezekiah's application of this exact provision: "The king, his officials, and the whole assembly in Jerusalem decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month, for they had been unable to celebrate it at the regular time because not enough priests had consecrated themselves, and the people had not assembled in Jerusalem." The Chronicler explicitly connects Hezekiah's decision to the Numbers precedent, showing how wilderness legislation provided legitimate flexibility for the monarchy's renewal of neglected worship practices.

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