Amos 8:2 to Ezekiel 7:6

OT Text Referred to: Ezekiel 7:6

Subject: the end

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Echo

Connection Method(s): None

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.

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Text: Ezekiel 7:6

OT Text Referred to: Amos 8:2

Subject: the end

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): None

Significance: Ezekiel 7:6 repeats with urgency: "The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you." The doubled הַקֵּץ (haqqets, "the end") intensifies Amos 8:2's single declaration, and the verb הֵקִיץ (heqits, "it has awakened/roused") echoes the same root used in Amos's wordplay between קַיִץ (qayits, "summer fruit") and קֵץ (qets, "end"). Ezekiel's threefold repetition of "the end" throughout chapter 7 (vv. 2, 3, 6) transforms Amos's brief oracle into a sustained drumbeat of impending doom, making clear that the judgment Amos foresaw for Samaria has now come upon Jerusalem.