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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 16:53 → Deuteronomy 29:23

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 16:53BSB

But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 29:23BSB

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Significance

Ezekiel 16:53 shockingly promises the restoration of Sodom's fortunes alongside those of Samaria and Jerusalem, alluding to Deuteronomy 29:23 where the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah serves as the paradigmatic warning of covenant curse. Deuteronomy uses Sodom as the ultimate example of land destruction—"sulfur, salt, burning waste"—to threaten what will happen if Israel forsakes the covenant. Ezekiel inverts this by declaring that Jerusalem has been more abominable than Sodom (16:48), and that even Sodom's שְׁבוּת (shevut, "captivity/fortunes") will be restored. This reversal humiliates Jerusalem by placing her below even the archetype of divine destruction.

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

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