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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 36:1 → 2 Kings 23:31

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:1BSB

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:31BSB

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother's name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Jehoahaz's brief three-month reign using similar language: "The people of the land" (עַם הָאָרֶץ) installed him as king after Josiah's death. Both record his negative evaluation and his removal by Pharaoh Neco, who replaced him with his brother Eliakim (renamed Jehoiakim). The people's choice of Jehoahaz (the younger son) over his older brother was likely politically motivated — favoring an anti-Egyptian candidate — but Neco quickly reversed this decision, demonstrating that Judah had lost effective sovereignty to Egypt after Josiah's death at Megiddo.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Kings 23:31's full accession notice (twenty-three years old, three months, mother Hamutal of Libnah) is compressed by the Chronicler to the bare installation "the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king" (2 Chr 36:1), the first step in his rapid four-king descent from Josiah's death to exile; retelling the same moment from the post-exilic vantage, the Chronicler strips the formula down so the story can hurry on to the judgment and the Cyrus-decree hope in which God's redemptive purpose resolves (2 Chr 36:22-23).