Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”
⛓ Read Genesis 18 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.
‘To God the Judge of all’ (v. 23) echoes Abraham's appeal to ‘the Judge of all the earth’ at Gen 18:25 — the title for God as universal judge. Medium volume; a recognized divine epithet, distinctively phrased in Genesis.
Medium confidence'How will God judge the world?' (3:6) invokes Abraham's appeal to the Judge of all the earth who must do right; God's universal judicial competence is the unquestionable premise that secures his righteousness.
Medium confidenceEcho6
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Those who are outside, God judges' resonates with Abraham's 'Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?' — God as the universal judge over outsiders while the community judges its own. Faint, contested echo of the divine-judge motif.
Low confidence"Him who is ready to judge" (4:5) reflects the standing title of God as Judge of all the earth who renders account. Faint topical echo.
Low confidenceAsking that Onesiphorus 'find mercy from the Lord in that day' invokes the Judge of all the earth doing right at the eschatological judgment. The day-of-the-LORD judgment frame behind 'that day' is rooted in OT theophany. Marked contested.
Low confidenceJesus 'appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead' echoes the title 'Judge of all the earth.' Thematic.
Low confidenceAbraham's appeal, 'Shall not the Judge of all the earth do justice?' frames God as the just Judge contrasted here with the unjust human judge. The figural contrast between God-the-just-Judge and the city judge who fears neither God nor man may stand behind Luke's argument a fortiori. Faint and thematic.
Low confidenceThe Abraham-Sodom dialogue's confidence in God ('shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?') shares the setting of the same 'too hard for the LORD?' passage Jesus echoes.
Low confidence