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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 36:26 → Ezekiel 11:19

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 36:26BSB

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.||||

Earlier text

Ezekiel 11:19BSB

And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh,

Significance

Ezekiel 36:26 promises "I will give you a new heart (לֵב חָדָשׁ, lev chadash) and put a new spirit within you; I will remove the heart of stone (לֵב הָאֶבֶן, lev ha'even) and give you a heart of flesh (לֵב בָּשָׂר, lev basar)," restating and expanding the earlier promise of Ezekiel 11:19 which used nearly identical language. The inner-Ezekiel repetition reinforces this as a central theological commitment: internal transformation, not merely external restoration, is God's ultimate goal. Chapter 11 introduced this promise in the context of the glory departing the temple; chapter 36 anchors it in the broader program of cleansing with clean water (v. 25) and Spirit-empowered obedience (v. 27), creating the fullest prophetic vision of inward renewal.

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

▸ A New Heart and Dry Bones

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

Ezekiel 36:26 → Ezekiel 11:19

Significance

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