Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
⛓ Read Genesis 22 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.
The doubled vocative 'Saul, Saul' (v7) follows the OT pattern of urgent divine address by repeated name — 'Abraham, Abraham' at the binding of Isaac. The form signals a theophanic call/redirection. Recurs across the OT call narratives below.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The angel addressing 'Cornelius!' and his fearful 'What is it, Lord?' faintly echoes the OT pattern of God/angel calling a name and the human responding (Abraham, Samuel). Low volume; offered maximally.
Low confidence