You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
⛓ 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.
Allusion6
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The creation-doxology — “you created all things... they existed, and were created,” worshiped by the heavenly host — strongly parallels the Levites' confession: 'You alone... made heaven... the earth and all things on it... and the army of heaven worships you.' Coherence and structural agreement are excellent: God as sole Creator of all, adored by the heavenly army, is exactly the logic of Rev 4:11. Distinctive shared move: the worth/worship of God grounded precisely in his having created and preserved all things. LXX 2 Esdras 19:6 supplies the Greek base.
High confidence'You... have made heaven... the earth and all things on it, the seas and all that is in them... and the host of heaven worships you' — Creator-worship formula reinforcing the call to worship the Maker. Strong conceptual and verbal coherence.
High confidence'You give life to all of them' praises the one God who made and sustains all things. The charge before 'God, who gives life to all things' (v.13) echoes this confession of the Creator as life-giver to the whole creation. A direct conceptual parallel to the life-giving formula.
Medium confidenceNehemiah's communal prayer, 'you have made heaven... the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them,' is another instance of the creation formula embedded in corporate prayer addressed to 'you, even you, are LORD alone' — closely matching this assembly's prayer opening 'O Lord, you are God.' Strong thematic fit; verbal overlap shared with the wider formula.
Medium confidenceEzra's prayer, 'You are the Lord alone; you have made heaven... the earth... the seas, and all that is in them, and you preserve them all,' is the great post-exilic monotheistic confession built on the same creation list and joined to providential preservation, both present in vv15-17. Volume moderate (creation catalogue plus preservation); Recurrence supports the formula's currency in Second Temple worship.
Medium confidence'you have made heaven... the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them' is the closest creation-formula parallel to the triadic 'heaven... earth... sea and the things in them' of the oath. Strong verbal volume for the creation clause.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'You made heaven... the earth and all that is on it... and you give life to them all' parallels both creation and life-giving themes; included as a recurrent OT confession.
Low confidence