Later text
A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.'
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.'
Earlier text
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Ezekiel 21:27 (MT 21:32) declares that the crown and turban will be overturned "until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs" (עַד בֹּא אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ הַמִּשְׁפָּט, ad bo asher-lo hammishpat), a phrase widely recognized as alluding to Genesis 49:10's "until Shiloh comes" (עַד כִּי־יָבֹא שִׁילֹה, ad ki-yavo shiloh). Both texts envision a future figure to whom royal authority rightly belongs. Ezekiel applies this messianic expectation to the contemporary crisis: Zedekiah's crown is being removed, and the Davidic monarchy is suspended "until" the rightful ruler appears. The allusion transforms the immediate political catastrophe of 586 BC into a prophetic pointer toward the eschatological Davidic king. Both texts also share שֵׁבֶט (shevet, "scepter/staff") language for Judah's royal authority--Jacob promising it will not depart, Ezekiel pronouncing its temporary removal--showing that the underlying promise to Judah stands even as the current dynasty is dismantled.
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