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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

Revelation 17:16 → Ezekiel 23:25-29, 47

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 17:16BSB

And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 23:25-29, 47BSB

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Significance

Ezekiel 23 portrays Jerusalem as Oholibah, the adulterous sister who is punished by her own lovers: "They shall deal with you in hatred ... and leave you naked and bare" (23:29), and "they shall strip you of your clothes" (23:26), and the assembly shall "burn their houses" (23:47). Revelation 17:16 describes nearly identical treatment: the ten horns and beast "will hate the prostitute ... leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire." The verbal and thematic parallels — stripping, burning, hatred from former allies — are extensive. In both texts, the instruments of judgment are the harlot's own former lovers/allies turned hostile. This allusion shows that eschatological Babylon follows the same pattern of divine poetic justice that characterized Jerusalem's punishment in Ezekiel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Longitudinal Theme

Linked Mentions 1

Trajectory Tables 1

Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry) Trajectory Table