So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
⛓ Read Ezekiel 37 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.
'The breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet' — Rev's 'they stood on their feet' is virtually verbatim from this verse. Together with 37:5 the resurrection of the witnesses is a tableau of Ezekiel 37. LXX estesan epi ton podon auton.
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'To give breath to it... that the image should speak' may echo Ezek 37:9-10, breath (pneuma) entering the slain so they live and stand; the false prophet usurps the Spirit's life-giving work.
Medium confidenceThe slain in the vision 'lived, and stood up' (LXX ezēsan) — the resurrection-vivification verb 'they lived' (ezēsan) may echo the Ezekiel dry-bones revival; faint lexical parallel.
Low confidence