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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 34:33 → 2 Kings 23:4

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 34:33BSB

And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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

Josiah's cultic purge in 2 Kings 23:4 — removing Baal and Asherah worship from the temple — connects to the Chronicler's summary in 2 Chronicles 34:33: "Josiah removed all the abominations (הַתּוֹעֵבוֹת, hatto'evot) from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God." The Chronicler's summary emphasizes the geographic scope (extending beyond Judah into former northern territory) and the compulsory nature of the reform. Both texts present Josiah's purge as the most thorough cleansing of Israelite worship since the original conquest.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — The temple cleansing Kings narrates in detail (the articles of Baal, Asherah, and the host of heaven burned outside Jerusalem, 2 Kings 23:4) reappears in the Chronicler's summary verdict that Josiah "removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites" and "required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God" (2 Chronicles 34:33) — the earlier account re-presented with widened, all-Israel scope for a post-exilic community facing its own restoration of worship.