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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
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 34:8 → 2 Kings 22:3

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 34:8BSB

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to cleanse the land and the temple, Josiah sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.

Earlier text

2 Kings 22:3BSB

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,

Significance

Both texts record Josiah sending Shaphan the scribe to oversee temple repairs in his 18th year, during which Hilkiah the priest discovers the Book of the Law (סֵפֶר הַתּוֹרָה). Kings dates this to Josiah's 18th year (2 Kgs 22:3); Chronicles agrees but has already described six years of prior reform activity (2 Chr 34:3-7). Both emphasize that the Torah scroll was found during temple renovation — suggesting it had been lost or hidden during the long reigns of Manasseh and Amon. The discovery of Torah within the temple walls connects the physical restoration of God's house to the spiritual rediscovery of God's word.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Both verses open the same eighteenth-year commission of Shaphan to the house of the LORD (2 Kings 22:3 // 2 Chronicles 34:8), the repair project in which the Book of the Law is found; the Chronicler re-presents Kings' notice with the added purpose "to cleanse the land and the temple," folding the scroll's discovery into a reform already underway since Josiah's twelfth year (34:3) and so advancing the account for the post-exilic community rebuilding God's house.