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2 Samuel 23:2

The New Testament’s use of 2 Samuel

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

“The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

2 Pet 1:19-21

'No prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men spoke being moved by the Holy Spirit' rests on David's claim, 'The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; his word is on my tongue' — the model of Spirit-carried prophecy.

Medium confidence
Acts 1:15-20

Peter says 'the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David' the scripture about Judas. This inspiration formula echoes David's own claim, 'The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, and his word was on my tongue.' Volume: shared the-Spirit-spoke-through-David formula. Thematic coherence high; it grounds the Davidic psalter as prophetic of Judas. Recurrence: Luke repeatedly attributes the Psalms to David's Spirit-inspired prophecy (e.g., Acts 2:30; 4:25).

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 10:16-23 ?

'The Spirit of the LORD spoke by me, and his word was in my tongue.' David's last words present the same pattern of the Spirit speaking through a human mouth, a faint background for the Spirit of the Father speaking in the disciples (10:20).

Low confidence