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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 36:11 → 2 Kings 24:18

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:11BSB

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years.

Earlier text

2 Kings 24:18BSB

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

Significance

Both texts introduce Zedekiah, Judah's last king, with the same formula: age 21 at accession, 11-year reign, mother Hamutal. Both give the negative evaluation "he did evil in the sight of the LORD." The Chronicler adds crucial details about Zedekiah's spiritual failure: "He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD" and "he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD" (2 Chr 36:12-13). This characterization of Zedekiah as the king who refused prophetic warning provides the theological explanation for the final catastrophe that follows.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Chronicles 36:11 repeats 2 Kings 24:18's accession data for Judah's last king (twenty-one years old, eleven years in Jerusalem) but pares away the mother's name and moves straight to the indictment that Zedekiah "did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet" (36:12); by retelling Kings' final accession formula from the far side of the exile, the Chronicler turns a court record into the opening of his theological verdict on why the kingdom ended — and why the story does not end there (36:22-23).