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Isaiah 13:21

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

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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.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 12:43-45

Desert/waterless ruins as the haunt of demons and wild creatures ('goat-demons will dance there'); background to the unclean spirit roaming 'waterless places' as the abode of demons.

Medium confidence
Luke 11:24-26 ?

Desolate places haunted by desert demons ("wild beasts... satyrs shall dance there") inform the unclean spirit wandering through "dry places" seeking rest. The waterless-wilderness as demonic habitat is the OT backdrop; faint.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 13
Isaiah 13:6 2Isaiah 13:8 3Isaiah 13:9 2Isaiah 13:10 6