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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 25:7

Echo

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 25:7BSB

And they slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. Then they put out his eyes, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Significance

In 2 Kings 25:7, Zedekiah is captured, his sons are slaughtered before his eyes, and then his eyes are put out — the last thing the last Davidic king sees is the death of his royal line. The connection to 2 Chronicles 33:1 (Manasseh's reign) reflects the narrator's assessment that the seeds of this final catastrophe were sown during Manasseh's 55-year reign of idolatry. Kings explicitly states that the exile happened "because of the sins of Manasseh" (2 Kgs 24:3), making Manasseh's introduction in 2 Chronicles 33:1 the theological origin point for the horror that culminates in Zedekiah's blinding.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression + Analogy — Within Kings' own storyline the reign this verse introduces is the stated cause of the catastrophe that closes the book ("because of the sins of Manasseh," 2 Kgs 24:3), so Manasseh's accession begins the downward movement of judgment that ends at Zedekiah's blinding; and the Chronicler's account of that reign has Manasseh himself bound with bronze shackles and taken to Babylon (2 Chr 33:11) — the very fate 2 Kings 25:7 describes for Zedekiah in the same words — making the first king's chains-to-Babylon captivity the pattern the last king's repeats without the restoration.