But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
⛓ Read Daniel 10 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Michael, one of the chief princes' wars against the prince of Persia — establishes Michael as warrior-angel engaged in heavenly combat, the direct backdrop for 'Michael and his angels made war on the dragon.'
High confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The cosmic conflict 'not against flesh and blood but against the principalities... rulers of the darkness' (6:12) coheres with Daniel's angelic 'princes' (archontes) of Persia and Greece who war in the heavens. Second-Temple angelology of national powers supplies availability; the connection is conceptual, hence a contested echo.
Low confidenceMichael's identity as 'the archangel' contending against a hostile spiritual power draws on Daniel's portrayal of Michael as one of the chief princes who battles opposing angelic forces. Jude assumes the Danielic role of Michael as Israel's angelic champion.
Low confidence