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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 32:24 → Deuteronomy 8:2

Echo

Later text

2 Chronicles 32:24BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 8:2BSB

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.

Significance

Deuteronomy 8:2 identifies God's purpose in the wilderness as testing (נִסָּה, nissah) Israel to "know what was in your heart." 2 Chronicles 32:24 records Hezekiah's illness and the sign God gave him, and subsequent verses reveal that "his heart was proud" in response to divine favor. The Chronicler interprets Hezekiah's experience through the Deuteronomic lens of divine testing: God uses both adversity and blessing to expose the heart's true allegiance. Hezekiah's pride after healing illustrates the very danger Moses warned about—that divine provision would produce self-sufficiency rather than humble dependence.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy — Deuteronomy 8:2's wilderness purpose, God humbling and testing Israel "to know what was in your heart," is the developing theme the Chronicler applies to Hezekiah, whose illness, sign, and subsequent pride (2 Chr 32:24-25) show the heart exposed by divine dealing; the analogy runs from a nation tested by deprivation to a king tested by favor, one canon-long theme of heart-revealing testing that culminates in the Son who was tested in the wilderness and found faithful.