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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

Amos 8:2 → Ezekiel 7:2

Echo

Later text

Amos 8:2BSB

"Amos, what do you see?" He asked. "A basket of summer fruit," I replied. So the LORD said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them."

Earlier text

Ezekiel 7:2BSB

"O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: 'The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Significance

Amos 8:2 declares "the end (הַקֵּץ, haqqets) has come for My people Israel," employing a Hebrew wordplay between "summer fruit" (קַיִץ, qayits) and "end" (קֵץ, qets). Ezekiel 7:2 echoes the identical declaration: "The end has come (בָּא הַקֵּץ, ba haqqets) upon the four corners of the land." Both prophets announce irrevocable divine judgment using the same terminus vocabulary, but Ezekiel extends Amos's judgment from the northern kingdom to encompass the entire land, including Judah. The verbal repetition signals that what Amos foretold for Israel, Ezekiel now announces for the remaining kingdom.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the prophetic announcement of הַקֵּץ, "the end," develops across the canon: the terminus word Amos coins for the northern kingdom through the summer-fruit wordplay (qayits/qets) is taken up by Ezekiel and extended to "the four corners of the land," the day-of-judgment motif widening from Israel to the whole covenant people.