“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
⛓ Read Nehemiah 9 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.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Paul charges that they 'killed... their own prophets' (v. 15), the classic Deuteronomistic prophet-killing tradition stated programmatically in Nehemiah's confession: 'they were disobedient... and slew your prophets who testified against them.' High coherence: Paul's polemic is a compressed restatement of this historiographical theme of Israel's persecution of God's messengers.
High confidence"They killed your prophets who had warned them" — the confessional memory of slain prophets undergirds vv30-31,34-37.
High confidence'They killed your prophets who had warned them to turn back to you' summarizes the very pattern Jesus laments. Medium Volume; this confessional retrospect is a strong conceptual source for 'kills the prophets.'
Medium confidenceIsrael's confession that 'they slew your prophets which testified against them to turn them to you' summarizes the rejected-and-killed-emissaries pattern the parable allegorizes.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The confession that they 'killed your prophets' frames the apostrophe to prophet-killing Jerusalem (v37).
Medium confidenceIsrael 'slew thy prophets which testified against them' — same servants-as-prophets motif behind the murdered messengers (22:6).
Low confidence