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Psalm 68:17

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

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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.

Gal 3:19-22 ?

Ps 68:17 (LXX 67:18), 'the chariots of God are myriads... the Lord among them at Sinai,' contributed to the tradition of angelic hosts at the Sinai law-giving behind v.19. The link is part of a cluster of texts, not a single source; verbal contact is slight. Contested.

Low confidence

Echo2

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

1 Thess 3:11-13 ?

The Lord coming "with all his saints" faintly recalls the chariots of God, "twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands," the LORD among them as at Sinai. The motif of God advancing amid innumerable heavenly hosts overlaps with the parousia escort.

Low confidence
Rev 9:13-19 ?

'The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands' supplies the innumerable-heavenly-host idiom behind the hyperbolic 'two hundred million' (dismyriades myriadon) horsemen of 9:16. Faint numerical-host parallel.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 68
Psalm 68:5 3Psalm 68:16 2Psalm 68:18 4