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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 36:1-4 → 2 Kings 23:31-35

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:1-4BSB

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And the king of Egypt dethroned him in Jerusalem and imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:31-35BSB

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. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his fathers had done. And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died. So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh's demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.

Significance

These are parallel accounts of the rapid transition from Jehoahaz to Jehoiakim under Egyptian control. Both record Neco's deposition of Jehoahaz and appointment of his brother, the renaming to Jehoiakim, and the imposition of tribute. Kings adds that Jehoiakim taxed the people to pay the tribute, while the Chronicler adds that Neco "took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt" (2 Chr 36:4). Both accounts mark the beginning of Judah's final descent: from this point forward, Judah's kings are puppet rulers installed by foreign powers — first Egypt, then Babylon.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the Chronicler condenses Kings' fuller narrative of the transition (Riblah imprisonment, the hundred-talent levy, the renaming, Jehoahaz's death in Egypt, the taxation of the land, 2 Kgs 23:31-35) into four verses that keep only what moves the story forward — deposition, tribute, renaming, deportation (2 Chr 36:1-4); writing after the exile, he compresses Judah's loss of sovereignty into a single downward stride so that redemptive history can run on to its seventy-year sabbath and the stirring of Cyrus (2 Chr 36:21-22).