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Ezekiel 38:19-20

The New Testament’s use of Ezekiel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the […]

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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 16:17-21

Gog oracle: 'a great earthquake... the mountains shall be thrown down,' all creatures quake at God's presence. Direct source for the unprecedented earthquake and mountains/islands fleeing (16:18,20).

High confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 11:11–14 ?

The 'great earthquake' in the day of the LORD before which all tremble — supplies the eschatological earthquake-and-terror of Rev 11:13. Coherent with Rev's seismic theophany vocabulary (recurs at 6:12; 16:18).

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Ezekiel 38
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