“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
⛓ Read Joel 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.
'He has given the early rain… the early and the latter rain' restates the same agricultural promise as a sign of restoration, reinforcing the patient-farmer figure.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Be glad and rejoice in the LORD your God' (Joel 2:23) is a prophetic instance of the same idiom Paul deploys. Faint and one of many possible Septuagintal sources, so marked contested.
Low confidence