Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren, and don’t bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son. Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing: for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
⛓ Read Judges 13 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 annunciation to a barren wife that she 'will conceive and bear a son' who is to abstain from wine and be set apart from the womb (Judges 13:3-5) is the closest single template for Gabriel's speech, supplying both the structure and the Nazirite content. High volume and tight thematic coherence.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Samson annunciation (angel appears, announces a son who 'shall begin to save Israel') parallels both the angelic appearance and the savior-of-his-people destiny of vv.20-21. Thematic coherence high (deliverer-of-the-people motif); verbal volume moderate.
Medium confidence