All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 3 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.
'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 confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'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