Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
⛓ Read Daniel 4 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.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Daniel's appeal to Nebuchadnezzar to 'redeem your sins by almsgiving and your iniquities by mercy to the poor' supplies the redemptive-almsgiving theology underlying using mammon to gain eternal welcome. Strong coherence with the verse's logic; the connection is conceptual rather than verbal.
Medium confidenceDaniel's counsel to the king to 'break off your sins by showing mercy to the oppressed' links royal forgiveness with the showing of mercy demanded of the forgiven — a possible backdrop to the king/mercy frame. Contested.
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