They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
⛓ Read Genesis 19 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.
Elymas struck with mist and darkness, groping for someone to lead him, closely parallels the men of Sodom struck with blindness so they could not find the door, a divine judgment-blinding. Strong narrative recurrence with 2 Kings 6 below.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The angels at Sodom deliver and confound; the angel of the Lord opening sealed prison doors while guards remain unaware (vv. 19, 23) is a faint analogue of angelic deliverance amid baffled custodians.
Low confidence