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. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
⛓ 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.
'Born of the seed of David' and 'declared Son of God' (vv.3-4) invoke the Nathan oracle: Davidic seed whom God will establish and call son. High thematic coherence (royal-messianic sonship) and strong conceptual recurrence in early Christian use.
High confidenceThe 'promise made to the fathers' that God has fulfilled by raising Jesus centers on the Davidic covenant, especially 'I will be his father and he shall be my son,' which dovetails with the Ps 2 citation. Reinforces the father-son sonship theme.
Medium confidenceThe Davidic covenant promising David a 'seed' whose throne God establishes and who will be God's son — the basis for the crowd's answer that the Christ is the son of David (22:42).
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The premise that 'the Christ is David's son' rests on the Davidic covenant promise of an everlasting offspring/son for David's throne, which Jesus' question both presupposes and transcends. Coherent and recurrent in messianic expectation; moderate volume as the unstated scriptural basis of 'David's son.'
Medium confidenceThe premise that the Christ is 'the son of David' rests on the Davidic covenant promise that God will raise up David's offspring and be a father to him. The scribal expectation Jesus interrogates is generated by Nathan's oracle, making it the necessary background to the riddle even though it is not quoted.
Medium confidenceThe title 'Christ' invokes the Davidic covenant promise of an anointed son whose throne is established forever. Coherence with Mark's Son-of-David theme (10:47) supports reading the confession against the Nathan oracle, though the link here is conceptual rather than verbal.
Low confidence