Text: 2 Chronicles 30:26
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 23:22
Subject: nearly unprecedented Passover
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 2 Kings 23:22, the narrator declares that "no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel." The connection to 2 Chronicles 30:26 creates a tension: the Chronicler records that Hezekiah's earlier Passover was such that "there was nothing like it in Jerusalem 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.