There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Gods, the work of human hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell' — covenant-curse idol polemic feeding the 9:20 list (wood and stone, works of hands). Reinforces the standard Deuteronomic dead-idol formula behind John's catalogue.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Idols 'the work of human hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear' parallels v.29's gold, silver, and stone made by human craft.
Medium confidenceThere you will serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear; the made-with-hands formula. Faint, contested, part of the cluster.
Low confidence