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Ezekiel 37:5

The New Testament’s use of Ezekiel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

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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.

Rev 11:11–14

'I will cause breath/spirit to enter you, and you shall live' — Rev's 'the breath of life from God entered into them' is a direct adoption of the dry-bones revivification oracle. Highest volume in the pericope. LXX pneuma zoes entering the slain matches Rev's pneuma zoes.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

2 Cor 3:4-6

Ezekiel 37:5-6 ('I will cause breath/spirit to enter into you, and ye shall live') reinforces the Spirit-vivifies-the-dead imagery behind 'the Spirit gives life.' Recurrence within Ezekiel 37 strengthens the allusion cluster; slightly lower volume than v.14.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Ezekiel 37
Ezekiel 37:1-14 8Ezekiel 37:9-14 2Ezekiel 37:10 3Ezekiel 37:14 7Ezekiel 37:17 2Ezekiel 37:23 2Ezekiel 37:27 7