As soon as you have come into the city, you shall immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he blesses the sacrifice. Afterwards those who are invited eat. Now therefore go up; for at this time you shall find him.”
⛓ Read 1 Samuel 9 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.
Samuel's sacrificial feast where 'the people will not eat until he comes... afterward those eat who are invited' supplies the formal vocabulary of invited guests waiting on the host's bidding. A faint background to the supper's summons protocol.
Low confidenceSamuel 'blesses' before the people eat at the sacrificial meal; the gesture of a prophet looking up and blessing the food before distribution faintly echoes the prophetic table-blessing convention.
Low confidence