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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 7:6

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 7:6BSB

The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. Behold, it has come!

Significance

Amos 8:2 introduces the key term "the end" (הַקֵּץ, haqqets) through the qayits/qets wordplay (summer fruit / end), while Ezekiel 7:6 heightens the urgency: "The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you." Ezekiel's personification of "the end" as something that "awakens" (הֵקִיץ, heqits) against the people may itself be a further wordplay on the same root family Amos used. Both prophets employ קֵץ vocabulary to declare that Yahweh's patience has a limit, and both connect this announcement specifically to covenant violations -- economic injustice in Amos, idolatry and violence in Ezekiel.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the הַקֵּץ announcement Amos introduces through the qayits/qets wordplay is carried forward and intensified in Ezekiel's triple cry, "The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you": the day-of-judgment motif developing across the prophets until the end itself is personified as awake and advancing.