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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 → Jeremiah 31:33

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

Jeremiah 31:33BSB

"But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Significance

Ezekiel 36:26-27 and Jeremiah 31:33 are parallel new covenant promises from contemporary exilic prophets. Jeremiah promises God will "put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts" (נָתַתִּי אֶת־תּוֹרָתִי בְּקִרְבָּם וְעַל־לִבָּם אֶכְתְּבֶנָּה), while Ezekiel promises a "new heart" (לֵב חָדָשׁ, lev chadash) and "new spirit" (רוּחַ חֲדָשָׁה, ruach chadashah) enabling obedience from within. Both address the same theological problem: Israel's persistent inability to keep the covenant due to hardness of heart. Their solutions are complementary—Jeremiah emphasizes the internalization of Torah, Ezekiel emphasizes the Spirit's enabling power—together forming the most comprehensive OT vision of the new covenant's inner transformation. Ezekiel specifies the mechanism as replacing the "heart of stone" with a heart of flesh, an organic transformation Jeremiah's "writing" metaphor does not itself supply.

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

▸ The New Covenant ▸ A New Heart and Dry Bones

Linked Mentions 4

Trajectory Tables 3

Anchor Texts 1

Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

Ezekiel 36:26 → Jeremiah 31:33

Significance

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