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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 30:26 → 2 Kings 23:22

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 30:26BSB

So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:22BSB

No such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel through all the days of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Significance

In 2 Kings 23:22, the narrator declares that "no such Passover had been observed from the days of the judges who had governed Israel." The connection to 2 Chronicles 30:26 creates a tension: the Chronicler records that Hezekiah's earlier Passover was such that "nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon." Both Passovers are described in superlative terms, but with different comparison points — Josiah's exceeds the judges, Hezekiah's exceeds Solomon. The two celebrations represent the twin peaks of post-Solomonic worship reform, each exceptional in its own right and each answering a different historical benchmark.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — The two texts crown two different Passovers with parallel "nothing-like-it" superlatives measured against different benchmarks: Hezekiah's joy unmatched "since the days of Solomon" (2 Chr 30:26), Josiah's observance unmatched "from the days of the judges" (2 Kgs 23:22). The analogical pairing of the two reforming kings' restored Passovers — twin peaks of covenant renewal, each answering its own historical standard — anticipates the greater Passover deliverance accomplished in Christ.