I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.”
⛓ Read Zechariah 2 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 man with a measuring line sent 'to measure Jerusalem.' Reinforces the prophetic measuring-for-protection topos; in Zechariah measuring marks the city as guarded by God. High coherence with Rev's protective measuring of worshipers even as the outer court is surrendered. Hebrew chevel middah / LXX schoinion geometrikon (a line, not a reed) — note the instrument diverges (line vs. reed), so Ezekiel is the closer verbal parallel.
High confidenceThe man with a measuring line going to measure Jerusalem — parallels the measuring of the city (v.15-16); paired with Ezek 40.
Medium confidence