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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 33:21 → 2 Kings 21:3

Allusion

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 21:3BSB

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Significance

In 2 Kings 21:3, Manasseh rebuilds the high places Hezekiah had destroyed, erects altars to Baal, makes an Asherah pole, and worships "all the host of heaven" (כָּל־צְבָא הַשָּׁמַיִם, kol tseva' hashamayim). The connection to 2 Chronicles 33:21 introduces his son Amon, who continued the same cultic practices. The Chronicler adds the crucial distinction that while Manasseh eventually repented (2 Chr 33:12-13), Amon "did not humble himself before the LORD" — indicating that the revival of Manasseh's pre-repentance cultic rebellion by his son Amon represented a willful rejection of the very reform Manasseh had begun after his restoration.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — 2 Kings 21:3 records Manasseh raising altars for Baal, making an Asherah pole, and serving "all the host of heaven," and the reign introduced at 2 Chronicles 33:21 replays that rebellion point for point — Amon "served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made" (33:22) — a correspondence the text itself draws ("as his father Manasseh had done"), with the son repeating the father's sin while refusing the father's later humbling (33:23).