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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 → Numbers 14:29

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24BSB

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

Earlier text

Numbers 14:29BSB

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

Significance

God's death sentence in Numbers 14:29 -- "Your bodies will fall in this wilderness" -- is summarized by Psalm 106:24 with the diagnosis "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." The psalmist interprets the wilderness death toll not primarily as punishment for grumbling but as the consequence of unbelief: מָאַס (ma'as, "despise/reject") the land that God had sworn to give them. This reframing transforms the Numbers narrative from a story about complaining into a story about rejecting God's word, making it applicable to any generation that fails to trust divine promises.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the death sentence of Numbers 14:29 is carried into Israel's liturgical memory by Psalm 106:24, which diagnoses the wilderness deaths as the fruit of despising (מָאַס) the pleasant land and disbelieving the promise, so that the judgment of the exodus generation becomes standing confession in the progressing history that leads to the One who wins the inheritance unbelief forfeited.

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