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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
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 35:1 → 2 Kings 23:21

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 35:1BSB

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:21BSB

The king commanded all the people, "Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."

Significance

Both texts record Josiah commanding the people to "keep the Passover (פֶּסַח, pesach) of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant." Kings summarizes the celebration in three verses; the Chronicler expands to 19 verses with extensive detail about priestly and Levitical preparations, the distribution of Passover animals (30,000 lambs and kids, plus 3,000 cattle from Josiah's own provision), and the proper liturgical order. Both note the unprecedented nature of this Passover — the greatest since the days of the judges (Kings) or since the time of Samuel (Chronicles).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Kings 23:21 preserves the bare royal command ("Keep the Passover of the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant"), and the post-exilic Chronicler carries the same event forward in the history of redemption, opening a full liturgical account with the feast actually kept "on the fourteenth day of the first month" (2 Chr 35:1) — the covenant meal recovered under Josiah and held out to the restoration community on the way to Christ our Passover.