David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’”
⛓ Read 2 Samuel 1 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.
'Your blood be on your own head' is David's verdict on the Amalekite — the same idiom of self-incurred bloodguilt that Paul pronounces over the resisting synagogue.
Medium confidence'Your blood be on your own head' — the OT idiom of self-incurred bloodguilt that the crowd reverses onto themselves ('his blood be on us and on our children'); the verbal pattern of blood 'on' someone.
Medium confidence