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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 33:21 → 2 Kings 21:19

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 33:21BSB

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

Earlier text

2 Kings 21:19BSB

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Amon's brief two-year reign with the standard formula: age 22 at accession. Both record his evil, noting he "did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done" — walking in the idolatrous ways Manasseh had followed. The Chronicler adds a pointed contrast: "he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done" (2 Chr 33:23). This addition presupposes the Chronicler's unique Manasseh repentance narrative and uses Amon's refusal to repent as the key distinction — Amon had his father's sins without his father's eventual humility.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The Chronicler retells Kings' introduction of Amon with the same regnal data (twenty-two years old, a two-year reign: 2 Kings 21:19 // 2 Chronicles 33:21), re-presenting the earlier account for the post-exilic community and sharpening its lesson with his added evaluation that Amon "did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done" (33:23) — measuring the son by the humbling his own Manasseh narrative had just introduced.