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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 36:12 → Leviticus 18:24

Echo

Later text

Ezekiel 36:12BSB

Yes, I will cause My people Israel to walk upon you; they will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer deprive them of their children.

Earlier text

Leviticus 18:24BSB

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Significance

Ezekiel 36:12-15 promises that the land of Israel will "no longer devour men or deprive your nation of its children," addressing the accusation that the land "devours its inhabitants" (אֹכֶלֶת אָדָם, okhelet adam). This language echoes Leviticus 18:24-28 where the land "vomits out" (תָּקִיא, taqi) its inhabitants because of their defilement (טֻמְאָה, tum'ah). Leviticus established the principle that the land itself rejects defiling inhabitants; Ezekiel promises God will reverse this, cleansing the land so it can receive its people permanently. The land's response to human sin—an active agent of judgment in Leviticus—becomes an agent of restored blessing in Ezekiel's eschatological vision. Ezekiel grounds this reversal not in Israel's renewed obedience but in God's concern for His own holy name (36:22).

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the Holiness Code's land theology (a defiled land "will vomit out its inhabitants," Leviticus 18:25) develops into Ezekiel's restoration promise that the cleansed land will no longer expel or bereave its people: one land-and-defilement theme traced from curse-principle to eschatological reversal grounded in God's own name.

▸ A New Heart and Dry Bones

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Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

Ezekiel 36:12 → Leviticus 18:24

Significance

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