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Psalm 106:37

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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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.

1 Cor 10:14-22

'They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons' parallels Deut 32:17 and reinforces 'sacrifice to demons' (v.20). The psalm's wilderness-and-conquest demon-sacrifice motif coheres with Paul's reading; a likely secondary source.

Medium confidence

Echo2

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

Rev 9:20-21 ?

'They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons' (LXX tois daimoniois) — together with Deut 32:17 the scriptural basis for equating idolatry with demon-worship in 9:20. Reinforces, with murders in the vice-list of 9:21, the demonic-bloodshed nexus.

Medium confidence
1 Tim 4:1-5 ?

The idea of devotion redirected to demons recalls the psalmist's indictment that Israel 'sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.' A reinforcing echo of the OT motif of demonic deception lying behind false cult.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 106
Psalm 106:9 2Psalm 106:16 2Psalm 106:48 2