House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
⛓ Read Isaiah 2 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.
'Come, let us walk in the light of the LORD' supplies the ethical idiom of walking in light that 1 John opposes to walking in darkness. The summons to conduct oneself in God's light is directly echoed.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Walk while you have the light... that you may become children of light' draws on the prophetic 'walk in the light of the Lord' and the wider light/darkness covenant motif. Coherence with Isaiah's light-walking and John's pervasive light theme gives medium weight; an idiom rather than a citation.
Medium confidenceIsaiah's call to 'walk in the light of the LORD' offers a faint background for Paul's 'children of light... children of the day' (5:5) language of belonging to the light rather than darkness. Contested and one of several light/darkness texts.
Low confidence'Come, let us walk in the light of the LORD' — invitation-to-come framing; faint background to the threefold 'Come!' Generic invitation idiom.
Low confidence