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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 24:23 → Leviticus 26:39

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 24:23BSB

Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:39BSB

Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.

Significance

Ezekiel 24:23 declares to the exiles, "you will waste away because of your sins" (בַּעֲוֹנֹתֵיכֶם תִּמָּקּוּ, ba'avonotekhem timmaqqu), directly echoing the covenant curse of Leviticus 26:39: "Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity" (יִמָּקּוּ בַּעֲוֹנָם, yimmaqu ba'avonam). The shared verb מָקַק (maqaq, "to rot/waste away") combined with עָוֹן (avon, "iniquity") creates an unmistakable verbal link. Ezekiel applies this Levitical curse to explain why the exiles will not mourn properly when Jerusalem falls—their grief will be an internal wasting, the very condition Moses threatened for covenant breach.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — the covenant sanction sworn in Leviticus 26:39 ("Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity") comes to pass verbatim on the exilic generation in Ezekiel 24:23 ("you will waste away because of your sins"): the threatened covenant word executed, not merely a shared theme.