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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 38:6 → Genesis 10:3

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 38:6BSB

as well as Gomer with all its troops, and Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you.

Earlier text

Genesis 10:3BSB

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

Significance

Ezekiel 38:6 identifies "Beth-togarmah from the far north" as part of Gog's alliance, linking to Genesis 10:3 where Togarmah is listed as a son of Gomer, grandson of Japheth. The qualifier "from the far north" (מִיַּרְכְּתֵי צָפוֹן, miyyarketey tsafon) intensifies the Table of Nations identification by emphasizing Togarmah's extreme geographical remoteness. Ezekiel transforms the genealogical data of Genesis 10 into eschatological geography, where distance from Israel correlates with hostility: the most remote northern peoples become the final adversaries of God's restored community. The prefix בֵּית ("house of") in "Beth-togarmah" further signals that Ezekiel has transformed Genesis 10's personal name into a territorial designation, naming an actual people-group rather than merely invoking an ancestor.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Genesis 10:3 records Togarmah among Gomer's sons in the post-flood Table of Nations; Ezekiel 38:6 summons "Beth-togarmah from the far north with all its troops" into Gog's army, the genealogical datum become eschatological geography. The storyline runs from the nations' primeval dispersion to their final northern muster and defeat before the LORD (38:23) — one history moving to its appointed climax.