By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.
⛓ Read Psalm 33 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.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'By the word of the LORD the heavens were made' is the clearest OT text crediting creation to God's spoken word, the Jewish exegetical bridge from Genesis to a creative Logos. Strong thematic coherence with v.3 ('all things were made through him') and availability secure in Second-Temple liturgy.
High confidence'By the word of the LORD the heavens were made' grounds Peter's insistence that the heavens existed 'by the word of God,' the same creative word that now reserves them for fire.
Medium confidence'By him all things were created... all things have been created through him' (v.16) echoes 'By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.' Creation-by-the-word coherence supports the Logos/Wisdom agency Colossians ascribes to Christ.
Medium confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'By the word of the LORD the heavens were made' supplies the background for a life-giving creative word. The Word of life that was from the beginning draws on the tradition of God's word as the agent of creation and vivification.
Medium confidence'By the breath of his mouth all the host' were made; here the same creative-destroying breath of the mouth is turned to judgment. Verbal echo of 'breath of his mouth.'
Low confidence'By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth' offers a creation-by-divine-breath background for 'God-breathed' Scripture. The pairing of word and breath of God's mouth resonates with theopneustos.
Low confidence