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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 34:1 → 2 Kings 22:1

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 34:1BSB

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years.

Earlier text

2 Kings 22:1BSB

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother's name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

Significance

Both texts introduce Josiah's reign with the same formula: age 8 at accession, 31-year reign, and the unqualified positive evaluation "he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left." However, the accounts diverge on chronology: Kings dates Josiah's reforms to his 18th year (when the Torah scroll was found), while the Chronicler dates his initial seeking of God to his 8th year and his purging of idolatry to his 12th year — six years before the Torah discovery. This earlier dating in Chronicles presents Josiah as self-motivated rather than scroll-prompted.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The Chronicler reopens Josiah's story with Kings' own formula (eight years old, thirty-one years in Jerusalem, walking in the ways of his father David: 2 Kings 22:1-2 // 2 Chronicles 34:1-2), re-presenting the last great reforming reign for the post-exilic community and advancing the account with his fuller chronology — seeking God from the eighth year and purging from the twelfth (34:3) — so that reform is rooted in wholehearted devotion before ever the scroll is found.