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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 38:2 → Genesis 10:3

Echo

Later text

Ezekiel 38:2BSB

"Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him

Earlier text

Genesis 10:3BSB

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

Significance

Ezekiel 38:6 mentions "Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north," with both names appearing in Genesis 10:3 as sons of Gomer son of Japheth. תּוֹגַרְמָה (Togarmah) is a grandson of Japheth in the Table of Nations, and Ezekiel identifies his house (בֵּית תּוֹגַרְמָה, Bet Togarmah) as part of Gog's coalition. By drawing allies from the Table of Nations genealogy, Ezekiel constructs a coalition representing the far reaches of the Japhethite world—peoples from "the far north" (יַרְכְּתֵי צָפוֹן, yarketey tsafon)—to portray the eschatological threat as a universal gathering of distant nations against God's restored people.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Genesis 10:3's Togarmah, son of Gomer, belongs to the post-flood genealogy of Japheth's line; Ezekiel 38 (vv. 2, 6) marshals "Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north" under the Gog of 38:2, advancing the one storyline from the dispersion of the nations to their far-northern end-time muster against God's restored people and their defeat before Him (38:23; the trajectory Revelation 20:8 completes).