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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 36:5-8 → 2 Kings 23:36-24

Quotation

Later text

2 Chronicles 36:5-8BSB

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. Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar also took to Babylon some of the articles from the house of the LORD, and he put them in his temple in Babylon. As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

Earlier text

2 Kings 23:36-24BSB

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

These are parallel accounts of Jehoiakim's reign during the transition from Egyptian to Babylonian hegemony. Kings provides the more detailed narrative: Nebuchadnezzar invades, Jehoiakim becomes his vassal for three years then rebels, and God sends raiding bands of Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites "according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets" (2 Kgs 24:2). The Chronicler compresses the reign, adding the bronze-chain detail about Nebuchadnezzar's personal intervention and noting the "abominations he committed" (תוֹעֵבֹתָיו, to'evotav, 2 Chr 36:8). Both present Jehoiakim's reign as the beginning of Judah's end.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Kings unfolds Jehoiakim's reign in stages (accession, three years of vassalage, rebellion, and the LORD's raiders sent "according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets," 2 Kgs 24:1-2), while the Chronicler compresses the whole reign into four verses that move straight from accession to Nebuchadnezzar's bronze shackles and the first temple articles carried to Babylon (2 Chr 36:5-7); the post-exilic retelling accelerates the same history because its goal is no longer the reign itself but the exile-and-return arc it inaugurates.