Chronological timeline of texts tagged with New Testament Septuagint Dependence
About This Tag
The New Testament at times shows a direct dependence on the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew Bible when quoting or alluding to scripture. In many cases, the language or meaning reflects the Septuagint text or interpretation, even when the Hebrew differs significantly from the Hebrew text.
Note: Dates shown in this timeline are approximate and based on scholarly estimates.
Back to TagIsaiah 25:8 / LXX Hosea 13:14 / 1 Corinthians 15:55
7th-5th Centuries B.C.E.
Isaiah 25:8
Hebrew Bible
7 On this mountain he will swallow up the shroud that is over all the peoples, the woven covering that is over all the nations; 8 he will swallow up death permanently. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from every face, and remove his people’s disgrace from all the earth. Indeed, the Lord has announced it! 9 At that time they will say, “Look, here is our God! We waited for him, and he delivered us. Here is the Lord! We waited for him. Let’s rejoice and celebrate his deliverance!”
1st Century B.C.E.
LXX Hosea 13:14
Septuagint
12 a conspiracy of injustice. As for Ephraim, his sin is concealed. 13 Labor pains like those of a woman giving birth will come to him. This is your wise son, because he will not hold up at the crushing of children. 14 From the hand of Hades I will rescue, and from death I will ransom them. Where is your penalty, O death? Where is your sting, O Hades? Comfort is hidden away from my eyes. 15 Since this will separate between brothers; the Lord will bring upon him a wind, burning heat from the wilderness, and it will dry up his veins; it will dry up his fountains. It will dry up his land, and all his desired vessels.
55-57 C.E.
1 Corinthians 15:55
New Testament
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 Now when this perishable puts on the imperishable, and this mortal puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will happen, “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
1st Century B.C.E.
LXX Psalm 4:5
Septuagint
2 When I called, the God of my righteousness heard me. In tribulation you made room for me. Have mercy upon me and hearken to my prayer. 3 Sons of humans, how long are you slow of heart? Why do you love vanity and seek a lie? 4 Know that the Lord magnifies his holy one. The Lord will hear me when I have cried out to him. 5 Be angry and do not sin. For what you say in your heart, let your conscience be pained upon your beds. 6 Offer a sacrifice of righteousness and place your hope in the Lord.
60-70 C.E. (If authentic), 90-100 C.E. (If anonymous)
Ephesians 4:26
New Testament
24 and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image—in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth. 25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor because we are members of one another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. 27 Do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 The one who steals must steal no longer; instead he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he will have something to share with the one who has need.
1st Century B.C.E.
LXX Psalm 17:5
Septuagint
3 The Lord is my strength and my refuge and my savior. My God is a helper, and I will hope in him, my protector and the horn of salvation, my helper. 4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord, and I will be saved from my enemies. 5 Pains of death surrounded me, and torrents of lawlessness troubled me. 6 Pains of Hades encircled me. Snares of death came near to me. 7 And when I was afflicted, I called upon the Lord, and to my God I cried aloud. He heard my voice from his holy temple, and my crying before him will enter into his ears.
75-85 C.E.
Acts 2:24
New Testament
22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know— 23 this man, who was handed over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing him to a cross at the hands of Gentiles. 24 But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held in its power. 25 For David says about him,‘I saw the Lord always in front of me, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. 26 Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced;my body also will live in hope,
1st Century B.C.E.
LXX Amos 9:13
Septuagint
10 All sinners of my people will die by the sword, those who say, ‘The evil things shall not approach or come against us. 11 On that day I will raise up the tent of David that has fallen, and I will rebuild its things that have fallen, and I will raise up its things that have been destroyed, and I will rebuild it just as the days of eternity, 12 so that the remnant of the people, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name was invoked upon them, will search for me,” says the Lord who is making these things. 13 “Look, days are coming,” says the Lord, “and the harvest will overtake the harvest, and the grapes will turn dark at seedtime, and the mountains will drip sweetness, and all the hills will be thickly wooded.
75-85 C.E.
Acts 15:17
New Testament
14 Simeon has explained how God first concerned himself to select from among the Gentiles a people for his name. 15 The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written, 16 ‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David; I will rebuild its ruins and restore it, 17 so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,’ says the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from long ago. 19 “Therefore I conclude that we should not cause extra difficulty for those among the Gentiles who are turning to God,