But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
⛓ 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.
'You will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search with all your heart' underlies v.27, that the nations 'should seek the Lord... and find him.'
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'From there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search with all your heart' — covenantal seek-and-find assurance.
Medium confidence'You will seek me, and won't find me' (v.34) inverts the Deuteronomic promise 'you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search with all your heart.' The reversal (seeking without finding) functions as covenantal judgment language. Volume and verbal contact are modest; marked contested.
Low confidence"You shall seek the LORD your God, and you shall find him, if you search after him" is another seek-find promise feeding the same matrix. Adds recurrence but little independent volume; low.
Low confidence