I will tell the north, ‘Give them up!’ and tell the south, ‘Don’t hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth—
⛓ Read Isaiah 43 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.
God commands the gathering of 'my sons' and 'my daughters' from the ends of the earth, framing the people as God's children. The verse reinforces the sonship motif John applies to believers. Faint but congruent with the divine-family theme.
Medium confidenceThe plural 'sons and daughters' ('Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth') supplies the gendered expansion absent from 2 Sam 7:14. Volume moderate via the distinctive 'sons and daughters' pairing; a genuine conflated link coherent with the gathering theme of v.17.
Medium confidence