Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? But thus says Yahweh, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
⛓ Read Isaiah 49 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The strong-man parable, binding the strong man to plunder his house, closely tracks Isaiah's 'shall the prey be taken from the mighty?... I will contend... and save your children.' The vocabulary of the strong/mighty one and plunder/spoil maps onto the saying, and the theme of God liberating captives from a powerful captor gives high coherence. Strong volume for an OT background to the exorcism logic.
High confidence'Shall the prey be taken from the mighty?... I will contend... and save your children.' The strong-man-bound-and-plundered image directly draws on Isaiah's promise that the spoil will be wrested from the tyrant — Jesus binding 'the strong man' (Satan) to plunder his house.
High confidence"Shall the prey be taken from the mighty... yet the captives of the mighty shall be taken away" underlies the stronger-one despoiling the armed strong man (11:21-22). The image of plunder reclaimed from a mighty captor is the source of the binding-the-strong-man logic.
Medium confidence