Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand. Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, […]
⛓ Read Ezekiel 3 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The first watchman commission, where the prophet who fails to warn has the sinner's blood 'required at your hand' but the faithful one 'delivers his soul,' is the twin source of Paul's blood-innocence claim (v.26) tied to declaring 'the whole counsel of God' (v.27). Recurs with Ezek 33; together a strong watchman intertext.
High confidencePaul's self-description as one who 'didn't shrink from declaring anything profitable' (v.20) and testified repentance (v.21) begins the watchman motif that crests in v.26-27; the prophet appointed watchman who must declare the whole message anticipates Paul's accounting. Verbal overlap is light here, fuller in the next pericope.
Low confidence