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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 36:5 → 2 Kings 23:36

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:5BSB

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:36BSB

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother's name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.

Significance

Both texts introduce Jehoiakim's eleven-year reign with the negative evaluation "he did evil in the sight of the LORD." Kings provides the fuller account, including his taxation of the people and his confrontation with Jeremiah (cf. Jer 36). The Chronicler in 2 Chronicles 36:5-6 adds the detail that "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon" — a detail absent from Kings, suggesting a deportation or attempted deportation of Jehoiakim himself, alongside the temple vessel removals that both accounts imply.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — 2 Kings 23:36's accession formula (twenty-five years old, eleven years, mother Zebidah of Rumah) reappears in 2 Chronicles 36:5 with the mother's name dropped and the verdict "he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God" fused directly into the notice; the Chronicler's leaner retelling, which immediately adds Nebuchadnezzar's bronze shackles (36:6), advances the same stretch of redemptive history one stage further — from Kings' court record to the post-exilic narrative that reads Jehoiakim's reign as a way-station on the road to Babylon and back.