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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 36:18 → 2 Kings 25:8

Allusion

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:18BSB

who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.

Earlier text

2 Kings 25:8BSB

On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

Significance

In 2 Kings 25:8-9, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard burns the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and every great house in Jerusalem. The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 36:18 focuses on the plundering: Nebuchadnezzar "carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials." Kings emphasizes the physical destruction; Chronicles emphasizes the transfer of sacred wealth. Together they narrate the complete undoing of Solomon's temple — the building that took seven years to construct is destroyed in a single campaign, and everything Solomon dedicated is carried to a pagan land.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Kings dates Nebuzaradan's entry to the day and month (2 Kgs 25:8) and then itemizes the destruction at length, while the Chronicler gathers the whole despoiling into one sweeping clause — everything carried to Babylon, "all the articles of the house of God, both large and small" (2 Chr 36:18); the compression is the point: retelling Kings' finale from after the return, the Chronicler hurries the judgment scene forward so the narrative can arrive at the land's Sabbath rest and the decree of Cyrus (36:21-23), the next stage of God's redemptive purpose.