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2 Kings 7:3

The New Testament’s use of 2 Kings

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

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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.

Echo2

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

Luke 5:12-16 ?

The lepers outside Samaria's gate exemplify the social exclusion of the leper that frames Luke's scene. Faint, contextual only.

Low confidence
Luke 17:11-19 ?

The four lepers at the gate of Samaria who 'stood at the entrance' likewise embody the marginalized-leper-at-a-distance topos and the Samaria setting. Geographic and situational resonance, but no verbal dependence, so low.

Low confidence