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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 106:24-26 → Deuteronomy 1:27

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:24-26BSB

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD. So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 1:27BSB

You grumbled in your tents and said, "Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be annihilated.

Significance

Deuteronomy 1:27 records the people grumbling (רָגַן, ragan) in their tents, accusing God of hatred, and Psalm 106:25 echoes this exact scene using the same rare verb: "They grumbled in their tents" (וַיֵּרָגְנוּ, vayyeragnu). The psalmist's liturgical recitation of Israel's failures draws directly on Moses's farewell speech, condensing the spy narrative into a confession of national sin: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise." Both texts connect the grumbling to God's oath of exclusion from the land, showing that unbelief—not military weakness—was the cause of the wilderness generation's judgment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the tent-grumbling of Deuteronomy 1:27 reappears in Psalm 106:25 with the same rare verb רגן ("grumble"), Moses's farewell narrative condensed into later penitential liturgy — the historical failure at Kadesh-barnea confessed by a subsequent stage of redemptive history that still awaits the Son who believed and entered for His people.

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