Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 8 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.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Israel's rejection of God as king ('they have rejected me from being king over them') resonates with the priests' 'We have no king but Caesar.' Coherent theological irony, but contested as a deliberate echo.
Low confidenceThe subjects' refusal of the nobleman's reign recalls Israel's rejection of God as king ('they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them'). The verbal shape 'reign over us / over them' coheres with Luke's theme of rejecting the true king, though the parable's surface is Herodian politics. Low confidence, contested.
Low confidence