They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 15 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Azariah's oracle: 'nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every distress.' Jesus' 'nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom' is the closest verbal parallel in the OT, framing political chaos as divine eschatological distress. High volume and coherence.
High confidence'Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every distress' supplies the same nation-against-nation formula combined with God-sent 'trouble,' matching Mark's 'troubles.' The Chronicler's portrait of God-ordained civil chaos coheres with the apocalyptic catalogue.
Medium confidence'Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom' closely matches 2 Chronicles 15:6, 'nation was crushed by nation and city by city,' a description of the LORD troubling them with every distress; the verbal pairing is the source idiom for the upheaval motif.
Medium confidence