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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 7:3

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 7:3BSB

The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

Significance

Amos 8:2 announces "the end" (הַקֵּץ, haqqets) for Israel through the vision of summer fruit, while Ezekiel 7:3 declares "The end is now upon you" (עַתָּה הַקֵּץ עָלַיִךְ, attah haqqets alayikh), adding the immediacy of direct address. Both texts use קֵץ (qets) as a theological term for the definitive cessation of divine patience. Ezekiel's triple repetition of "the end" throughout chapter 7 (vv. 2, 3, 6) intensifies Amos's single announcement, hammering the point that God's long-suffering has reached its terminus and judgment is now inescapable. Ezekiel 7:3 sharpens the terminus further by adding its rationale — "I will judge you according to your ways" — specifying that this end arrives not arbitrarily but as the precise verdict on the nation's own conduct.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the prophetic הַקֵּץ announcement develops from Amos's summer-fruit wordplay against the northern kingdom to Ezekiel's direct address ("The end is now upon you") with its judicial rationale, "I will judge you according to your ways": the day-of-judgment motif sharpening as divine patience reaches its canonical terminus.