Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
⛓ Read 2 Samuel 14 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.
The wise woman of Tekoa secures David's oath that 'not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground,' the same idiom of total protection. The recurrence of the hair-of-the-head formula across Samuel reinforces its proverbial status behind Jesus' saying. Coherence with the OT preservation idiom.
Medium confidenceThe same hyperbole of inviolable safety — 'there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth' — secured by oath; an alternate locus for the 'not a hair shall perish' assurance Paul gives. Offered as a parallel attestation of the idiom.
Low confidence