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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 14:32

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24BSB

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

Earlier text

Numbers 14:32BSB

As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Significance

Numbers 14:32 pronounces wilderness death on the rebellious generation. Psalm 106:24 provides the theological diagnosis: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." The psalmist identifies two linked failures: despising (מָאַס, ma'as) the land and disbelieving God's promise. These are not separate sins but a single act of covenant rejection -- refusing to trust that God could deliver what He had sworn to give. The psalm's confessional context shows later Israel recognizing in their ancestors' failure a mirror of their own tendency toward unbelief.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the verdict "your bodies will fall in this wilderness" (Num 14:32) is interpreted by Psalm 106:24 as a single act of covenant rejection — despising the land and disbelieving the word — recited in later liturgy so that the wilderness generation's end presses the worshiping generation toward faith in the promise God still keeps in Christ.

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