Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 36:23-24 → Psalm 106:47

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 36:23-24BSB

I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.

Earlier text

Psalm 106:47BSB

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

Significance

Ezekiel 36:23-24 fulfills the petition of Psalm 106:47 by promising that God will gather Israel from among the nations and bring them into their own land, sanctifying His great name in the process. Both texts use the verb קָבַץ (qavats, "to gather") and connect the ingathering to the honor of God's name (שֵׁם, shem). Psalm 106 closes with this prayer after a lengthy recitation of Israel's sins and God's merciful interventions; Ezekiel 36 provides the definitive divine answer. The progression from prayer to prophetic promise demonstrates that God's restoration is motivated by His own name's reputation among the nations, not by Israel's repentance, which comes as a result of restoration rather than its precondition (36:25-27).

Found via
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type
Allusion
Connection Method(s)
Promise-Fulfillment + Longitudinal Theme

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