Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! Thus says Yahweh, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move. They are like a palm tree, […]
⛓ Read Jeremiah 10 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.
Idols are the work of the craftsman's hands, silver and gold, decked and unable to act; the silversmith is put to shame by his idols. Demetrius the silver craftsman and his guild embody exactly this trade. Strong thematic and lexical coherence (silver, craftsman, the work of human hands). Plausible and satisfying as the source of Paul's 'no gods made with hands.'
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Jeremiah's contrast of dead idols with the living Creator anticipates Paul's pivot from idols to the God who made all; thematic, not verbal.
Low confidence