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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
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Intertextuality Pair

2 Chronicles 35:20 → 2 Kings 23:28

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 35:20BSB

After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:28BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Josiah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Significance

Kings closes Josiah's reign briefly with the standard regnal formula (2 Kgs 23:28-30), noting Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 35:20-27 provides a dramatically expanded account: Neco was marching to Carchemish to fight the Babylonians and warned Josiah not to interfere, claiming God had commanded his campaign. Josiah refused to listen, disguised himself in battle, and was fatally wounded by archers. The Chronicler uniquely adds that Josiah "did not listen to Neco's words from the mouth of God" (2 Chr 35:22) — remarkably attributing a divine message to a pagan pharaoh.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Kings 23:28 closes Josiah's reign with the bare regnal source formula ("the rest of the acts of Josiah... are they not written...?"), and the Chronicler carries the account forward with theological interpretation: 2 Chronicles 35:20-22 explains the fatal march to Megiddo as Josiah's refusal to heed "Neco's words from the mouth of God," turning Kings' terse notice into an exposition of the moment redemptive history pivots from Judah's best king toward exile — and toward the need for a greater Son of David.