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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 14:31

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 14:31BSB

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

Significance

Numbers 14:31 contains a striking irony: "But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected." The very children Israel feared would be prey become the heirs of the promise. Psalm 106:24-26 recounts this judgment without the note of grace for the children, instead emphasizing the severity of the oath: "He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness." The psalm's focus on corporate failure serves its penitential purpose, while Numbers 14:31 reveals that even within judgment, God preserves a future generation through whom the promise continues.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Psalm 106:24-26 recites the oath of judgment whose gracious sequel Numbers 14:31 records (the children inherit what the parents rejected), the psalm's confession and the narrative's preserved-seed promise together tracing the history in which God's purpose outlives a faithless generation and runs on to the true Heir.

Linked Mentions 3

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