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1 Samuel 3:20

The New Testament’s use of 1 Samuel

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

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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.

Acts 13:17-22

'until Samuel the prophet' fixes the transition point at Samuel, recognized from Dan to Beersheba as a prophet of the LORD, the last of the judges. Distinctive named figure.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Acts 3:22-26 ?

'all the prophets from Samuel' (v. 24) presupposes Samuel's establishment as the LORD's prophet to all Israel; an allusive nod to the prophetic line's inauguration rather than a quotation.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in 1 Samuel 3
1 Samuel 3:10 2