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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 32:32 → 2 Kings 20:20

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 32:32BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

Earlier text

2 Kings 20:20BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Significance

Both texts provide closing summaries for Hezekiah's reign. In 2 Kings 20:20, the narrator highlights "the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city" — Hezekiah's famous water tunnel (the Siloam tunnel). The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 32:32 cites "the vision of the prophet Isaiah" as a source and notes Hezekiah's "deeds of loving devotion" (חֲסָדָיו, chasadav, "acts of steadfast love"). Both share the standard formula of source citation, death, and burial. The different emphases — engineering achievement (Kings) versus prophetic record and piety (Chronicles) — reflect each historian's characteristic interests.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 32:32 reworks the closing formula of 2 Kings 20:20 (both begin "As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah"), but where Kings points to the pool, the tunnel, and the royal annals, the Chronicler points to "the vision of the prophet Isaiah" and Hezekiah's deeds of loving devotion; the later text advances the earlier summary into a prophetic-theological evaluation of the Davidic king for the post-exilic community that still watched his line for the coming King.