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Nahum 3:4

The New Testament’s use of Nahum

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

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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.

Allusion2

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 17:1–6

Nineveh, 'the well-favored harlot, mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotry' — the harlot-imperial-city betraying nations by her seductions; reinforces the wine-of-fornication-intoxicates-the-nations motif. Hays: thematic coherence, recurrence of harlot-city topos.

High confidence
Rev 18:20-24

Nineveh 'the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her whoredom and families through her sorceries' — direct source for 'with your sorcery (pharmakeia) all the nations were deceived' (v.23). The harlot-city + sorcery + deceiving nations cluster matches closely.

High confidence

Echo1

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

Rev 18:1-3

Nineveh 'the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her whoredom' — the harlot-city seducing nations parallels Babylon's fornication with the kings (cf. also v.23 sorcery). Figural correspondence; contested as direct source.

Medium confidence