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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.

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 33:21-25 → 2 Kings 21:19-26

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 33:21-25BSB

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made, but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt. Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace. But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

Earlier text

2 Kings 21:19-26BSB

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. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served. He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place. As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.

Significance

These are parallel accounts of Amon's two-year reign, the shortest in Judah's history apart from those cut short by foreign intervention. Both record his idolatry, his assassination by his own servants, and the "people of the land" (עַם הָאָרֶץ, 'am ha'arets) executing the conspirators and installing his son Josiah. The Chronicler adds that Amon "increased his guilt" (הִרְבָּה אַשְׁמָה, hirbah 'ashmah, 2 Chr 33:23) and, unlike Manasseh, refused to humble himself. Both accounts serve as a brief dark interlude between the partially redeemed Manasseh and the reformer Josiah, showing that the "people of the land" maintained Davidic continuity even when the court fractured.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Chronicles re-presents Kings' whole Amon account — his evil "as his father Manasseh had done," the servants' conspiracy, and the people of the land executing the conspirators and enthroning Josiah (2 Kings 21:20-24 // 2 Chronicles 33:22-25) — and advances its theology for the post-exilic reader by adding that Amon "did not humble himself" but "increased his guilt" (33:23), making refusal of repentance, not inherited idolatry alone, the hinge of his ruin.