Later text
Psalm 106:24BSB
They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.
Intertextuality Pair
Psalm 106:24 → Deuteronomy 1:27
Allusion
Earlier text
You grumbled in your tents and said, "Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.
Significance
Deuteronomy 1:27 recounts Israel's accusation — "Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt" (בְּשִׂנְאַת יְהוָה, besin'at YHWH) — and Psalm 106:24 interprets this episode as despising the "pleasant land" (אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה, 'eretz chemdah) and refusing to believe God's word (דָּבָר, davar). The psalmist reframes Moses's historical narrative as confessional poetry, identifying the core failure as unbelief rather than merely grumbling. Both texts serve as warnings to later generations: Moses warns the generation entering the land, while the psalmist calls post-exilic Israel to acknowledge that their ancestors' pattern of faithlessness brought divine judgment.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression — Moses's narrative of the Kadesh-barnea accusation (Deut 1:27) is taken up into later penitential confession (Ps 106:24), the psalm re-reading the wilderness refusal of the pleasant land as the paradigm of unbelief a later stage of redemptive history must confess — a history answered in the Son who trusted the Father's word and leads His people into the promised inheritance.
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