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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 1:32

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 1:32BSB

But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

Significance

Moses declares that "in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God" (לֹא הֶאֱמַנְתֶּם, lo he'emantem), and Psalm 106:24 restates this diagnosis: "they did not believe His promise" (לֹא הֶאֱמִינוּ, lo he'eminu). Both texts use the root אמן ('mn, "believe/trust") to identify the fundamental sin at Kadesh-barnea—not fear of the Canaanites but failure to trust Yahweh's word. The psalm's liturgical retelling condenses Deuteronomy's extended spy narrative into a three-verse indictment, preserving the core theological judgment that unbelief led to God's oath of exclusion: "He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness."

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Moses's indictment "you did not trust the LORD" (אמן; Deut 1:32) is carried forward in Psalm 106:24's "they did not believe His promise" (אמן), the spy-crisis diagnosis of unbelief moving from covenant lawsuit to liturgical confession as redemptive history presses toward the promise-keeping faithfulness of God in Christ.

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