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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 106:24 → Deuteronomy 1:32

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24BSB

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 1:32BSB

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Significance

Moses charges that Israel "did not trust" (לֹא הֶאֱמַנְתֶּם, lo he'emantem) the LORD despite visible evidence of His provision, and the psalmist restates this failure: "they did not believe His promise" (לֹא הֶאֱמִינוּ לִדְבָרוֹ, lo he'eminu lidvaro). Both texts use the root אמן ('mn) to diagnose the Kadesh-barnea crisis as fundamentally a crisis of faith rather than military calculation. The psalmist transforms Moses's historical accusation into liturgical confession, inviting later worshippers to identify with and repent of the same pattern of unbelief that barred the wilderness generation from the land.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Moses's diagnosis "you did not trust the LORD" (Deut 1:32, root אמן) is restated generations later as liturgical confession, "they did not believe His promise" (Ps 106:24, same root), the unbelief of one redemptive-historical stage becoming the confessed warning of the next until the promise is secured by the obedient Son who brings His people into God's rest.

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Spies and Unbelief (Testing God's Promise) Trajectory Table