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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 14:30

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 14:30BSB

Surely none of you will enter the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Significance

Numbers 14:30 names only Caleb and Joshua as exceptions to the exclusion from the promised land: "none of you will enter the land... except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun." Psalm 106:24-26 recounts this corporate exclusion without naming the exceptions, focusing instead on the communal failure: "They despised the pleasant land" and grumbled in their tents. The psalmist's interpretive emphasis falls on unbelief ("they did not believe His promise") as the root cause, and on the oath of judgment ("He raised His hand and swore to cast them down") as its irreversible consequence. The psalm uses the wilderness exclusion as a paradigm warning for later generations about the cost of covenant unfaithfulness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the exclusion oath of Numbers 14:30 is recited in Psalm 106:24-26 as paradigm ("He raised His hand and swore to cast them down"), the psalm carrying Kadesh-barnea into the ongoing history of confession that ends only when the faithful One brings His people into the sworn inheritance.

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