Text: Ezekiel 14:20
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 14:20 repeats the triad of Noah, Daniel, and Job, reaffirming that even these exemplars of צִדְקָה (tsedaqah, "righteousness") could deliver only themselves. The allusion to Noah in Genesis 6 is sharpened by the emphasis that they could save "neither son nor daughter"—a pointed contrast to the Genesis flood narrative where Noah's righteousness explicitly saved his entire household (Gen 7:1). This climactic repetition, coming after three hypothetical judgments (famine, wild beasts, sword), drives home the unprecedented nature of Jerusalem's guilt: not even the patriarch whose righteousness once preserved an entire family could intercede for this generation.