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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 14:32

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

Numbers 14:32BSB

As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Significance

Numbers 14:32 delivers the blunt verdict: "As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness." Psalm 106:24-26 interprets this death sentence within a liturgical confession that traces Israel's repeated failures throughout salvation history. The psalm's distinctive contribution is verse 26's language of oath: God "raised His hand and swore" (נָשָׂא יָד, nasa' yad) to cast them down, elevating the Numbers narrative from historical punishment to covenantal oath-curse. By placing the spy rebellion alongside the golden calf (v. 19) and Baal-peor (v. 28), the psalmist presents it as one episode in a persistent pattern of unbelief.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the blunt verdict of Numbers 14:32 is set by Psalm 106:24-26 within a litany of Israel's recurring unbelief (calf, spies, Baal-peor), elevating one wilderness sentence into the confessed pattern of a whole history — the pattern broken only by the Son who trusted to the end.

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