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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 32:31 → 2 Kings 20:1

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 32:31BSB

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah's heart.

Earlier text

2 Kings 20:1BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"

Significance

Hezekiah's illness in 2 Kings 20:1 connects to 2 Chronicles 32:31, where the Chronicler uniquely interprets the Babylonian envoys' visit as a divine test: "God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah's heart." This theological insight — absent from Kings — reveals that the entire sequence (illness, recovery, Babylonian visit) was God's means of exposing Hezekiah's pride. The Kings account shows what happened; the Chronicler explains why God allowed it, adding the note that Hezekiah's heart was "proud" but he humbled himself, averting judgment during his lifetime.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The mortal illness announced in 2 Kings 20:1 sets in motion the sequence 2 Chronicles 32:31 interprets: the ambassadors came "to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land," and "God left him alone to test him." The Chronicler advances the earlier narrative from event to divine purpose, a progression of canonical revelation within the history of the Davidic house.