David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”
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Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The proverb that 'the blind and the lame' shall not come into the house is pointedly reversed: 'the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them' (21:14), so that the excluded are restored at the purified temple.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The blind and the lame shall not come into the house' (the Jebusite proverb attached to David's capture of Jerusalem) is the exclusionary saying Jesus' open invitation of the lame and blind overturns. Faint and contested, but coheres with the Lev 21 disqualification reversal as a second exclusion-text being inverted.
Low confidence