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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 6:4-7 → Leviticus 26:30-31

Allusion

Later text

Ezekiel 6:4-7BSB

Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:30-31BSB

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. I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Significance

Ezekiel 6:4-7 systematically enacts the covenant curses of Leviticus 26:30-31. Both passages describe the destruction of בָּמוֹת (bamot, "high places"), the cutting down of חַמָּנִים (chammanim, "incense altars"), and the scattering of bones before idols (גִּלּוּלִים, gillulim). Leviticus 26:31 adds that God will "not smell the aroma of your offerings," while Ezekiel 6:6 expands to include demolished cities and desecrated worship sites. The extended passage shows that the curse threatened at Sinai is now being fulfilled point by point, confirming Ezekiel's theological claim that exile results from covenant violation, not from divine caprice.

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