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2 Chronicles 20:7

The New Testament’s use of 2 Chronicles

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Jas 2:14-26

Jehoshaphat's prayer recalls God giving the land to the descendants of 'Abraham your friend forever.' Together with Isaiah 41:8 this is the scriptural basis for James 2:23's 'friend of God' epithet. Listed as parallel source.

High confidence
John 15:9-17

'Abraham your friend' — second OT witness to the Abraham-as-friend-of-God title that 'you are my friends' (15:14) actualizes for the disciples. Recurrence with Isa 41:8 strengthens the friend-of-God tradition behind the saying.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 5:1-12 ?

Israel as God's 'children'/friends; background for peacemakers 'called children of God.'

Low confidence