The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
⛓ Read 1 Kings 18 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.
Echo3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The hand of the Lord was with him' uses the idiom for prophetic empowerment, e.g. 'the hand of the Lord was on Elijah' (1 Kings 18:46; cf. Ezekiel 1:3; 3:14). Given the explicit Elijah typology of 1:17, the hand-of-the-Lord notice fittingly marks John's prophetic endowment.
Medium confidence'The hand of the LORD was on Elijah' is another instance of the same idiom of divine enablement. A faint echo contributing to the recurrence of the 'hand of the Lord' motif rather than a specific source.
Low confidenceElijah 'girded up his loins and ran' is a representative instance of the girded-loins idiom for urgent service. It supports the readiness imagery though Exodus 12 is the primary cultic source.
Low confidence