Give thanks to the God of gods; for his loving kindness endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords; for his loving kindness endures forever:
⛓ Read Psalm 136 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.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Give thanks to the God of gods... to the Lord of lords.' The liturgical pairing of these superlatives reinforces the 'Lord of lords' title of v.15 and its hymnic, doxological setting. A strong secondary witness alongside Deuteronomy 10:17.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Give thanks to the God of gods... the Lord of lords" parallels Paul's "many gods and many lords" / "one God... one Lord" antithesis in vv.5-6. Faint verbal contact through the gods/lords pairing; offered as a secondary resonance to Deut 10:17. Contested because the link is conceptual.
Low confidence