If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 2 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.
Eli's words, 'if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?'—spoken of sons whom the LORD willed to slay—anticipate the sin for which John says one should not pray. Both mark a sin so grave that intercession is futile or inappropriate. The notion of a sin beyond the reach of petition is shared.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'If a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?' — a sin against God himself leaving no mediation; faint resonance with the unpardonable blasphemy.
Low confidence