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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 33:21-25 → 2 Kings 21:3-5

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 21:3-5BSB

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. Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name." In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

Significance

In 2 Kings 21:3-5, Manasseh builds altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple — a supreme sacrilege, placing pagan astral worship in the very precincts of Yahweh's house. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 33:21-25 describes how Amon continued these practices: he "served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made." The Chronicler's crucial addition is that while Manasseh eventually "earnestly humbled himself" in captivity, Amon "increased his guilt" (הִרְבָּה אַשְׁמָה). The father repented; the son refused to, making Amon's reign the unrepentant continuation of Manasseh's original rebellion.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Kings' catalogue of what Manasseh made — altars for Baal, the Asherah, and altars to "all the host of heaven" in the two courtyards of the LORD's house (2 Kings 21:3-5) — is exactly what Chronicles says Amon took up: he "served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made" (2 Chr 33:22), the son's brief reign corresponding point for point to the father's pre-repentance rebellion while refusing the humbling that had ended it (33:23).