Ezekiel 14:21

God's declaration that 'how much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence' — even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were present, their righteousness could deliver only themselves — presents individual righteousness as non-transferable. The three 'righteous men' (Noah, Daniel, Job) represent paradigmatic individuals whose intercessions were historically effective; their limitation here serves Ezekiel's pastoral argument that Jerusalem's generation must repent individually. The four judgments (sword, famine, beast, pestilence) correspond to the Leviticus 26 covenant curse sequence and appear in Revelation 6's four horsemen (sword, famine, death, pestilence), confirming their canonical status as comprehensive covenant sanctions. Jeremiah 15:1's identical argument (Moses and Samuel interceding could not prevail) provides a contemporaneous prophetic parallel to Ezekiel's theology of individual moral accountability.