Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 36 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.
God 'sent persistently to them by his messengers... but they kept mocking the messengers... and scoffing at his prophets' — the Chronicler's summation of prophet-rejection frames vv29-37's prophet-killing generation.
High confidenceThe crowd's conviction that 'John was a prophet' whom it would be deadly to dishonor draws on the deuteronomistic theme that God repeatedly sent prophets whom the people rejected, setting up the tenants parable that follows. Volume is moderate; recurrence is strong across the OT prophet-rejection tradition, and it coheres tightly with 20:9-16.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's ministry 'with many tears' amid 'plots of the Jews' (v.19) and his journey toward inevitable suffering echoes the deuteronomistic pattern of the persistently rejected prophets/messengers; faint thematic link.
Low confidence