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1 Samuel 1:17

The New Testament’s use of 1 Samuel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

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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.

Luke 1:13-17

'Your request has been heard' echoes Eli's word to Hannah, 'the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked' (1 Samuel 1:17), followed by the granting of the longed-for son. The petition-heard motif coheres with the Hannah substratum that drives the Magnificat.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Acts 16:35-40 ?

'Go in peace' is the stock Hebrew dismissal-blessing (cf. Exodus 4:18; Judges 18:6); the jailer's 'go in peace' to the released prisoners carries this benedictory idiom. Lexical formula only.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in 1 Samuel 1
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