I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
⛓ Read Isaiah 45 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 treasures of darkness and hidden riches given to Cyrus so that he may know the LORD supplies the motif of concealed treasure tied to knowledge of God, matching Paul's 'treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden' that yield the knowledge of God's mystery. Recurrence of the hidden-treasure-leading-to-knowledge pattern supports the echo.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'I will give you the treasures of darkness and hoards in secret places' — God-given hidden treasure imagery; thematic only.
Low confidence