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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 → Numbers 14:29

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

Numbers 14:29BSB

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

Significance

Numbers 14:29 pronounces God's sentence on the exodus generation: "Your bodies will fall in this wilderness." Psalm 106:24-26 recalls this judgment in liturgical confession: "They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise... So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness." The psalmist's phrase "raised His hand and swore" (נָשָׂא יָד, nasa' yad) interprets the Numbers sentence as a divine oath, emphasizing its irrevocability. The psalm transforms the wilderness narrative into communal penitential worship, using past failure as a mirror for present-day Israel's own covenant unfaithfulness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Numbers 14:29's sentence is retold in Psalm 106:24-26 as divine oath ("He raised His hand and swore"), the wilderness judgment transposed into communal penitential worship — one stage of redemptive history confessing the last, until the oath-keeping God Himself provides the obedience Israel lacked.

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