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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 6:4 → Leviticus 26:30

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 6:4BSB

Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:30BSB

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Significance

Ezekiel 6:4 prophesies the destruction of Israel's altars and חַמָּנִים (chammanim, "incense altars/sun pillars"), directly echoing Leviticus 26:30 where God threatens to "destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and pile your corpses on the corpses of your idols." Both passages use nearly identical vocabulary: גִּלּוּלִים (gillulim, "idols"), בָּמוֹת (bamot, "high places"), and the image of slain bodies cast before their idols. Ezekiel announces that the long-threatened Levitical covenant curse is now being executed against Judah's syncretic worship sites.

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