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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 32:24-26 → Deuteronomy 8:2

Echo

Later text

2 Chronicles 32:24-26BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign. But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

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 explains that God led Israel through the wilderness "so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart" (לְנַסֹּתְךָ לָדַעַת אֶת אֲשֶׁר בִּלְבָבְךָ, lenasotekha lada'at et 'asher bilvavekha). 2 Chronicles 32:24-26 applies this same principle to Hezekiah: after his miraculous healing, "his heart was proud" and only later did he humble himself. The Chronicler presents Hezekiah's illness and recovery as a divine test that revealed the condition of his heart—precisely the purpose Moses identified for wilderness testing. The narrative shows that the Deuteronomic principle of testing-to-reveal extends beyond the wilderness generation to individual kings, with prosperity and divine favor functioning as the test just as effectively as wilderness deprivation.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy — Deuteronomy 8:2 defines the wilderness as God humbling and testing Israel "to know what was in your heart," and 2 Chronicles 32:24-26 traces exactly that anatomy in Hezekiah: favor received, "his heart was proud," then humbling. The same developing theme of heart-revealing testing extends by analogy from a nation tested by want to a king tested by blessing, and finds its faithful answer in Christ's own wilderness testing.