Text: Ezekiel 14:20
OT Text Referred to: Job 1
Subject: even if Noah, Danel, and Job were in the land
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy
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.