As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 32 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The eagle that 'spreads its wings... catches them, bears them on its pinions' from the Song of Moses is the maternal bird-protection image behind 'as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings' (v37).
High confidence'As an eagle... spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her pinions' (in the wilderness, 32:10) — eagle bearing Israel through the wilderness; pairs with Exod 19:4 as source of the great eagle's wings.
High confidenceThe eagle that 'hovers over its young, spreading out its wings' to bear them models God's parental gathering, paralleling the hen and brood. Medium Volume; the Song of Moses' wing-protection image is a likely source.
Medium confidence