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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 34:3 → 2 Kings 23:4

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 34:3BSB

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:4BSB

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Significance

In 2 Kings 23:4, Josiah commands removal of "all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven" from the temple. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 34:3 dates the beginning of Josiah's purge to his 12th year — six years before the Torah discovery — when "he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images." This chronological difference is significant: in Kings, the reforms follow the Torah discovery; in Chronicles, they precede it. The Chronicler presents Josiah's reforms as self-initiated devotion rather than scroll-prompted reaction.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Both texts narrate one purge: Kings has Josiah strip the temple of "all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven" after the scroll's discovery (2 Kings 23:4), while the Chronicler re-presents the same cleansing as beginning in the king's twelfth year, before the scroll (2 Chronicles 34:3), advancing the account so that Josiah's reform springs from his seeking of "the God of his father David" rather than only from the found book.