Text: Ezekiel 14:14
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 6
Subject: even if Noah, Danel, and Job were in the land
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy
Significance: Ezekiel 14:14 names Noah as one of three exemplars of צִדְקָה (tsedaqah, "righteousness") whose personal righteousness could not avert national judgment, alluding to Genesis 6 where Noah is described as אִישׁ צַדִּיק (ish tsaddiq, "a righteous man") who found חֵן (chen, "grace") in God's eyes. In Genesis 6, Noah's righteousness rescued his household from the flood; Ezekiel's point is that even such exceptional righteousness would now save only the individual, not sons or daughters. The allusion heightens the severity of Judah's situation: what worked in Noah's day—vicarious deliverance through one righteous person—no longer applies because the land's sin is too great.