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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 18:9 → Ezekiel 27:33

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 18:9BSB

Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 27:33BSB

When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.

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Significance

Ezekiel 27 is an elaborate lament over Tyre featuring merchants, shipmasters, and kings weeping at the city's destruction. Revelation 18:9-19 follows the same three-fold structure: kings weeping (18:9-10), merchants mourning (18:11-17a), and shipmasters lamenting (18:17b-19). The verbal parallels extend to specific phrases: "standing at a distance" (Ezek 27:35; Rev 18:10, 15, 17), throwing dust on heads (Ezek 27:30; Rev 18:19), and the cry "What city was ever like this?" (Ezek 27:32; Rev 18:18). John transfers the Tyre lament to Babylon, fusing Ezekiel's commercial-imperial judgment with Jeremiah's Babylon oracles. This layering of Tyre and Babylon imagery shows that all godless commercial empires share the same pattern of luxurious pride followed by sudden desolation.

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