Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 31 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.
Quotation1
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
God's promise to Israel at the Jordan — ‘he will not fail you nor forsake you’ — lifted to underwrite contentment: you need not grasp for money, for you already have him. The same promise was spoken to Joshua (Josh 1:5).
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Pursued, yet not forsaken' echoes the covenant assurance that God 'will not leave you nor forsake you.' The phrase is widespread, so volume is low and the link is a general scriptural commonplace.
Low confidence'Do not fear... for the LORD your God goes with you; he will not leave you' belongs to the same 'fear not / I am with you' tradition behind the vision.
Low confidence'He will not leave you or forsake you' is the classic divine-presence assurance, recast in 14:18 as Jesus' pledge not to abandon his own. The not-forsake formula gives modest Coherence with the consolation here; low because John uses the distinctive 'orphans' image rather than the Deuteronomic wording.
Low confidence