Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

till I make thy foes thy footstool;

`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said--A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

`Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made unto our fathers, saying unto Abraham: And in thy seed shall be blessed all the families of the earth;

`This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;

who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

`And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,

and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.

and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred--with seventy and five souls--

`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?

and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,

I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold,

and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground;

seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.

this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.

saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.

`And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,

and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan--the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

The heaven is My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what is the place of My rest?