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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 36:26-27 → Ezekiel 11:19-20

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 36:26-27BSB

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.|||| And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.||

Earlier text

Ezekiel 11:19-20BSB

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, so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Significance

Ezekiel 36:26-27 expands the earlier promise of 11:19-20, where God pledged a "heart of flesh" (לֵב בָּשָׂר, lev basar) replacing the "heart of stone" (לֵב הָאֶבֶן, lev ha'even) so that Israel would "walk in My statutes" (בְּחֻקּוֹתַי יֵלֵכוּ, bechuqqotay yelekhu). Chapter 36 adds the crucial mechanism: "I will put My Spirit within you" (רוּחִי אֶתֵּן בְּקִרְבְּכֶם, ruchi etten beqirbekhem), explaining how the new heart produces obedience. The progression from chapter 11 to chapter 36 deepens the promise: the earlier oracle identified the need (new heart), while the later oracle provides both the means (the Spirit) and the comprehensive context (cleansing, ingathering, land restoration) within which internal transformation occurs.

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

▸ A New Heart and Dry Bones

Linked Mentions 6

Trajectory Tables 5

Anchor Texts 1

Ezekiel 36-37 — A New Heart and Dry Bones

Ezekiel 36:26-27 → Ezekiel 11:19-20

Significance

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