She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 25 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.
Abigail's 'a servant to wash the feet of my lord's servants' marks footwashing as the lowliest slave duty. Jesus assuming exactly this office dramatizes 13:16 (the servant not greater than his lord). The status-coherence is strong.
Medium confidence'A servant is not greater than his lord' restates the lord/servant hierarchy that Abigail's footwashing self-description presumes, now made the basis for mutual service. The status logic coheres tightly with the preceding act. Recurrence of the master/servant ordering across the OT supports availability.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Washing the feet of others as humble service recalls Abigail's offer to wash the feet of David's servants. The act signifies lowly, devoted hospitality, the disposition Paul commends in the enrolled widow.
Low confidence