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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 35:12 → Leviticus 3:14

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 35:12BSB

They set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the Book of Moses; and they did the same with the bulls.

Earlier text

Leviticus 3:14BSB

And from his offering he shall present an offering made by fire to the LORD: the fat that covers the entrails, all the fat that is on them,

Significance

Leviticus 3:14-16 prescribes that the fat (חֵלֶב, chelev) portions of the peace offering — including the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver — must be burned on the altar as food, "an offering made by fire" to the LORD. 2 Chronicles 35:12 records that during Josiah's great Passover, the Levites "set aside the burnt offerings to be given to the divisions of the families of the people to offer to the LORD, as is written in the Book of Moses" — separating God's fat-portion (חֵלֶב) according to the Levitical procedure. The Chronicler's emphasis on following "the Book of Moses" demonstrates that Josiah's reform deliberately reinstated the Leviticus 3 fat-allocation procedure that prior generations had neglected.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Leviticus 3:14's requirement that "the fat that covers the entrails" be presented as "an offering made by fire to the LORD" is the standing law behind 2 Chronicles 35:12, where Josiah's Levites set the offerings apart "as is written in the Book of Moses"; the one developing theme of God's designated portion — the choicest given wholly to Him — carries the Levitical institution across the centuries into Josiah's reform and points to the perfect, undivided offering of Christ.