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.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters' adapts the Davidic-covenant promise 'I will be his father, and he shall be my son,' pluralized and expanded to the community. Volume high (formula-marked 'says the Lord Almighty'), coherence high as the covenant-sonship climax of the catena.
High confidenceNathan's dynastic oracle to David, read messianically and welded to Ps 2:7 by shared father/son language — a classic gezerah shavah (linking two texts by a common phrase). The author silently drops the clause about iniquity.
High confidenceAllusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'I will be his father, and he shall be my son' — Davidic adoption formula directly behind 'I will be his God, and he will be my son' (v.7). Revelation democratizes the royal promise to every overcomer.
High confidence'The holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God' draws on the Davidic adoption formula, 'I will be his father, and he shall be my son' (2 Samuel 7:14). Coheres tightly with the throne-of-David promise of 1:32-33, extending the Nathan-oracle source.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Nathan's dynastic oracle ('I will be his father, he shall be my son') stands behind the messianic 'Son of God' title alongside Psalm 2. Verbal volume in Mark is minimal; the link is by way of the Davidic sonship tradition rather than direct citation, hence low and contested.
Low confidence