When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
⛓ Read 2 Samuel 7 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Jesus Christ... of the seed of David' invokes the Davidic covenant promise that God will raise up David's offspring and establish his kingdom forever. Paul reads the resurrection as the fulfillment of the dynastic promise of an everlasting seed.
High confidence'From this man's seed God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise' rests on the Davidic covenant promise that God will raise up David's seed after him and establish his kingdom. The promise-to-David seed theology is the backbone of the verse.
High confidence'The Christ comes of the seed of David' (v.42) invokes the Davidic covenant, 'I will raise up your offspring after you... and I will establish his kingdom.' The 'seed of David' formula is the covenantal root of messianic expectation the crowd recites. Strong coherence with the Bethlehem-of-David clause and the whole is-this-the-Christ debate.
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