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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 5:10 → Deuteronomy 24:16

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 5:10BSB

As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.'

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 24:16BSB

Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

Significance

Ezekiel 5:10 depicts fathers eating sons and sons eating fathers during Jerusalem's siege, a horror that directly inverts the principle of Deuteronomy 24:16, which forbids punishing children for fathers' sins or vice versa. The Deuteronomic law protects intergenerational boundaries in judicial proceedings, but Ezekiel portrays a covenant breakdown so total that these boundaries collapse into literal mutual consumption. The contrast underscores how thoroughly Jerusalem's sin has dismantled the Torah's social order, reducing the covenantal community to a state worse than the nations around them.

Found via: Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (1866)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast