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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

Ezekiel 14:20 → Job 1

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 14:20BSB

then as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they could not deliver their own sons or daughters. Their righteousness could deliver only themselves.

Earlier text

Significance

In the climactic fourth scenario of Ezekiel 14:19-20, plague is sent and Noah, Daniel, and Job together could not save even their own children. The allusion to Job 1 is especially poignant because Job's greatest fear was realized when all his children perished (Job 1:18-19), despite his continual intercessory sacrifices on their behalf. Ezekiel employs this well-known exemplar of תָּם (tam, "blameless") suffering to argue a fortiori: if even Job, whose story culminated in restoration, could not prevent his children's death through personal righteousness, how much less can Judah expect vicarious deliverance from its accumulated guilt.

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