Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 15 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Samuel's declaration that 'the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent' reinforces the same axiom of divine truthfulness behind 'God, who can't lie.' Often paired with Numbers 23:19 as a doublet on the immutability of God's word.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
A second witness to the same maxim behind ‘impossible for God to lie’ (v. 18): the Glory/Strength of Israel ‘will not lie nor repent.’ Paired with Num 23:19 as the gezerah-shavah-style backdrop (the immutability of God's sworn counsel), though here verbal volume is low and the link is contested.
Medium confidence'The Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man' reinforces God's truthfulness, making the denial of sin an implicit charge of falsehood against him. A faint parallel to Numbers 23:19.
Low confidence