For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 7 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.
'A people for his own possession' (v.14) echoes Israel as 'a holy people unto the LORD, a peculiar people unto himself, above all peoples.' Part of the Deuteronomic treasured-people cluster behind v.14.
High confidenceThe greeting to the "chosen (elect) lady and her children" draws on Israel's status as the people the LORD chose for himself out of all peoples. The personified "lady" likely figures the church as the elect community, transferring covenant-election language to it.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Make your calling and election sure' presupposes Israel's election as a chosen people, the covenant language Peter applies to the church's assurance.
Medium confidenceThe catalogue of Israel's privileges (adoption, glory, covenants, law-giving, service, promises, fathers) in vv.4-5 draws on the Deuteronomic election traditions naming Israel as God's chosen, holy people set above the nations.
Medium confidence'The people whom you have given me out of the world... they were yours' (vv6,9) recasts Israel as God's own chosen possession 'out of all peoples.' Election-from-the-nations language is the coherent backdrop, though John substitutes 'world' for 'peoples'; low Volume.
Low confidenceJesus' priority 'let the children be filled first' presupposes Israel's status as God's chosen children/people set apart from the nations (Deuteronomy 7's election language). The exchange negotiates that elect-Israel-first economy; availability strong, verbal volume faint.
Low confidence