Text: 2 Chronicles 34:3-7
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 23:4-20
Subject: Josiah's comprehensive purge — parallel account
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts of Josiah's comprehensive idolatry purge. Kings provides 17 verses of detailed destruction: Baal and Asherah vessels burned in the Kidron, male shrine prostitutes expelled, Topheth defiled, horses of the sun removed, Solomon's high places desecrated, and Jeroboam's altar at Bethel demolished and defiled with human bones. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 34:3-7 compresses this into five verses but extends the geographic scope — Josiah purged "the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and even as far as Naphtali," indicating reform extending deep into former northern territory. Kings emphasizes the specific acts of destruction; Chronicles emphasizes the territorial reach of the reform.