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Micah 2:12

The New Testament’s use of Micah

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people.

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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.

John 10:11-18 ?

'I will surely gather all of you, Jacob... I will put them together like the sheep of Bozrah... they will swarm with people.' Supplies the regathering-into-one-flock image behind the 'one flock' formed from other sheep. Coherent but competes with Ezekiel/Isaiah gathering texts.

Medium confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 15:3-7 ?

God's promise to gather the remnant of Israel 'like sheep in a fold' supplies the regathering motif. Faint and one of several gathering oracles; included for recurrence within the shepherd-restoration cluster. Contested because no distinctive verbal link to a single lost sheep.

Low confidence