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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 33:1 → 2 Kings 21:1

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 33:1BSB

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

Earlier text

2 Kings 21:1BSB

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Manasseh with the same regnal formula: age 12 at accession, 55-year reign (the longest in Judah's history), mother Hephzibah. Both give him the most negative evaluation possible: he "did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations." Both list his specific sins — rebuilding the high places, erecting altars to Baal, making an Asherah pole, and worshiping the host of heaven. However, the accounts diverge dramatically regarding Manasseh's fate: Kings records only unrelenting wickedness, while the Chronicler adds Manasseh's captivity, repentance, and restoration — material entirely absent from Kings.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Contrast — The Chronicler reopens Manasseh's story with Kings' own accession formula (twelve years old, fifty-five years in Jerusalem: 2 Kings 21:1 // 2 Chronicles 33:1), re-presenting the earlier account for the post-exilic community; but where Kings' Manasseh remains unrelieved evil, the account this verse introduces adds his captivity, humbling, and restoration (2 Chr 33:11-13), setting the Chronicler's testimony that exile can end in mercy in deliberate contrast to Kings' verdict of judgment.