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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

Isaiah 38:1 → 2 Chronicles 32:31

Echo

Later text

Isaiah 38:1BSB

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'"

Earlier text

2 Chronicles 32:31BSB

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah's heart.

Significance

Isaiah 38:1 narrates Hezekiah's mortal illness and recovery, while 2 Chronicles 32:31 uniquely reveals that "God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah's heart" — a theological interpretation absent from Isaiah's account. The Chronicler explains that the Babylonian envoys' visit (triggered by the illness and the miraculous sign) was itself a divine test. What Isaiah presents primarily as a narrative of illness, prayer, and divine healing, the Chronicler reinterprets as a pivotal moment exposing Hezekiah's inner character, specifically his pride (32:25-26), which foreshadows the eventual Babylonian exile that Isaiah himself will predict in chapter 39.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the same illness-and-recovery episode read at two canonical stations: Isaiah gives the narrative and the king's psalm; the Chronicler, writing after the exile that Isaiah 39 foresees, discloses the event's inner purpose — "God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah's heart" — a retrospective interpretation that ties the recovery, the Babylonian envoys, and the coming exile into one divinely governed progression of redemptive history.