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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Ezekiel 5:10 → Leviticus 26:29

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

Leviticus 26:29BSB

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

Significance

Ezekiel 5:10 declares that "fathers will eat their sons" and "sons will eat their fathers," directly fulfilling the covenant curse of Leviticus 26:29: "You will eat the flesh of your sons and daughters." Both texts use אָכַל (akhal, "eat") combined with בָּנִים (banim, "sons/children") in the context of siege-induced famine. Ezekiel intensifies the Levitical curse by adding the reciprocal dimension—children eating fathers—showing that Jerusalem's sin has exceeded even what Moses warned. This confirms that the Babylonian siege is not arbitrary punishment but the enacted covenant curse threatened centuries earlier at Sinai.

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