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Ezekiel 39:17-20

The New Testament’s use of Ezekiel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

You, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bulls, all of them […]

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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 19:17-21

The Gog oracle's sacrificial feast: 'Speak to the birds of every sort... assemble... to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you... you shall eat the flesh of the mighty and drink the blood of the princes... horses and riders, mighty men and all the men of war.' Direct, sustained source of the angel summoning the birds to 'the great supper of God' to eat the flesh of kings, captains, mighty men, horses and riders (Rev 19:17-18). Verbal volume + structural parallel very high; inverts the marriage supper of v.9.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 14:17–20 ?

The sacrificial slaughter where horses and warriors are consumed — faint backdrop for the bloody battle-slaughter and horse imagery. Contested.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Ezekiel 39
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