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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 14:31

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24BSB

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

Earlier text

Numbers 14:31BSB

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

Significance

Numbers 14:31 promises that Israel's children, whom the faithless generation assumed would become plunder (Numbers 14:3), will instead inherit the land their parents rejected. Psalm 106:24 captures the parents' fundamental failure: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." The psalmist's verb מָאַס (ma'as, "despise/reject") interprets the spy episode not as mere fear but as an active refusal of God's gift. The children's eventual entry into the land demonstrates that God's promise persists across generations despite parental unbelief.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Psalm 106:24 recites the parents' despising of the land whose sequel Numbers 14:31 supplies (the feared children inherit the promise), the psalm folding that judgment-and-preservation into Israel's confessed history, in which God keeps the promise alive across generations until the true Heir receives it with His people.

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