that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 11 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'he... gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons' (v17) reflects the covenant promise 'I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain.' Volume high (rain given in due season → harvest); Thematic Coherence strong (God's good gifts as witness). A core text for the natural-revelation argument.
High confidence'I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain' is the covenant promise James invokes for the patient farmer who waits 'until it receives the early and late rain.' The early/late-rain pair is distinctive.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"We will reap in due season" (v.9) may faintly recall the covenant promise of rain and harvest "in its season" for obedience. Coherence with eschatological reaping is partial and the verbal link is thin; marked contested.
Low confidence