When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 27 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'By your great wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth' — direct source for 'all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth' (v.19) and 'merchants... made rich by her' (v.15). Verbal match on enriching by merchandise.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Tyre 'enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and merchandise' — anticipates 'merchants of the earth grew rich from her luxury.' Fuller resonance appears in the merchant lament (18:11-19); faint here.
Low confidence