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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 106:24 → Numbers 14:30

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24BSB

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

Earlier text

Numbers 14:30BSB

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Significance

Numbers 14:30 declares that the entire census-counted generation will be excluded from the land, except Caleb and Joshua. Psalm 106:24 distills the cause: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." The Hebrew אֶרֶץ חֶמְדָּה ('erets chemdah, "pleasant/desirable land") in the psalm contrasts sharply with the spies' negative report -- the land was objectively desirable, but unbelief caused Israel to reject what God had already given. The psalm's retrospective interpretation identifies the fundamental issue not as military weakness but as failure to trust God's דָּבָר (davar, "word/promise").

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Numbers 14:30's exclusion oath (all but Caleb and Joshua) is compressed by Psalm 106:24 into a theological verdict — the land was desirable, the failure was unbelief — the psalm carrying the Kadesh-barnea judgment forward as confessed history for a generation still awaiting the faithful One who brings His people into what God swore to give.

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