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?
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 20 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
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'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 confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Israel as God's 'children'/friends; background for peacemakers 'called children of God.'
Low confidence