You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 28 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.
Ezekiel's oracle places a figure 'in Eden, the garden of God,' fusing Eden with a glorious cosmic-mountain sanctuary, a trajectory that feeds the heavenly-Paradise of Paul's account. Coherence is strong because Ezekiel already relocates Eden into visionary, throne-adjacent space, the very move Paul presupposes when he equates the third heaven with Paradise.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Eden, the garden of God' (paradeisos in LXX) supplies another availability for the restored-paradise hope. Secondary to the Genesis/Isaiah Eden language; offered as a faint lexical support.
Low confidenceThe list of precious stones and gold adorning the king of Tyre in Eden faintly colors Babylon 'decked with gold and precious stones and pearls' (v.16). Faint, mediated by the broader Tyre cycle.
Low confidence