The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 14 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The people swear that not one hair of Jonathan's head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day, sparing his life. Jesus' 'not a hair of your head will perish' is a near-verbatim proverbial assurance of divine preservation. High volume on the distinctive idiom.
High confidencePaul's pledge that 'not a hair will perish from any of your heads' reproduces the OT idiom of total preservation — Israel's oath over Jonathan that 'there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground' — used to guarantee that no life will be lost. The proverbial formula is distinctive and its sense (life entirely safeguarded) is exactly Paul's.
Medium confidence'There shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground.' The idiom of every hair guarded as a token of total providential protection (cf. 2 Sam 14:11; 1 Kgs 1:52) lies directly behind 10:30, 'the very hairs of your head are all numbered,' assuring the disciples of God's exhaustive care amid persecution.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The oath that not one hair of Jonathan's head shall fall to the ground is the idiomatic source for divine protection imagery behind 'the very hairs of your head are all numbered.' The hair idiom is the link, though Luke intensifies it from preservation to enumeration, so confidence is low.
Low confidence