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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 29:17 → Ezekiel 26:7

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 29:17BSB

In the twenty-seventh year, on the first day of the first month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Earlier text

Ezekiel 26:7BSB

For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.

Significance

Ezekiel 29:17-20 acknowledges that Nebuchadnezzar's army received no wages (שָׂכָר, sakhar) from the siege of Tyre prophesied in Ezekiel 26:7-14, so God grants him Egypt as compensation. This is a remarkable inner-Ezekiel connection where the prophet himself revisits an earlier oracle and explains its partial fulfillment. The earlier prophecy named Nebuchadnezzar as God's instrument against Tyre (26:7), but the prolonged siege yielded insufficient plunder. God's solution—redirecting payment to Egypt—demonstrates that YHWH sovereignly employs and compensates pagan kings as instruments of His purposes, honoring His own word even when its fulfillment takes unexpected forms.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment — Ezekiel 29:17-20 is the prophet's own inspired administration of his earlier word: 26:7 had named Nebuchadnezzar the LORD's instrument against Tyre, and the later oracle reckons with that prophecy's outworking — the army's unpaid labor (29:18) — by granting Egypt as wages, "because it was done for Me" (29:20). The connection is the fulfillment dynamic itself: an earlier prophetic word tracked to its execution and its recompense sovereignly settled.