The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also with men.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The child was growing, and was becoming strong... filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him' closely follows the boy Samuel who 'continued to grow... in favor with the LORD and with men.' The growth-and-favor formula is verbally and structurally parallel, and recurs at v. 52, giving strong recurrence within the chapter.
High confidenceThe closing 'Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men' restates Samuel's growth 'in favor with the LORD and with men,' an inclusio with v. 40. Strong verbal parallel and double recurrence make this the chapter's clearest growth-formula allusion.
High confidence