Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,

‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

For Moshe himself said, ‘Adonai will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to everything he tells you.

Everyone who fails to listen to that prophet will be removed from the people and destroyed.’

“You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which God made with our fathers when he said to Avraham, ‘By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

“This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone.

By the Ruach HaKodesh, through the mouth of our father David, your servant, you said, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise useless plans?

The kings of the earth took their stand; and the rulers assembled together against Adonai and against his Messiah.’

and said to him, ‘Leave your land and your family, and go into the land that I will show you.’

What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.

But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’

Yosef then sent for his father Ya‘akov and all his relatives, seventy-five people.

When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?’

the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

Do you want to kill me, the way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’

When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai,

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look.

Adonai said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.’

This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’

saying to Aharon, ‘Make us some gods to lead us; because this Moshe, who led us out of Egypt — we don’t know what has become of him.’

That was when they made an idol in the shape of a calf and offered a sacrifice to it and held a celebration in honor of what they had made with their own hands.

So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra’el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!

No, you carried the tent of Molekh and the star of your god Reifan, the idols you made so that you could worship them. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel.’

‘Heaven is my throne,’ says Adonai, ‘and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?