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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 106:29 → Numbers 25:11

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:29BSB

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Earlier text

Numbers 25:11BSB

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous (for My sake) among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.

Significance

Numbers 25:11 attributes the end of God's plague to Phinehas's zeal (קִנְאָה, qin'ah): he was "zealous (for My sake) among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal." Psalm 106:29 recalls the provocation: "They provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them." The psalm contextualizes the Baal-Peor incident within Israel's broader history of covenant violations, treating it as one episode in a recurring pattern. Numbers emphasizes Phinehas's personal role in averting wrath; the psalm focuses on the people's guilt while still acknowledging in the following verses that Phinehas's intervention restrained the plague.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — Psalm 106:29 recites the Baal-peor provocation and plague that Numbers 25:11 resolves through Phinehas's zeal, the psalm (vv. 30-31) carrying that priestly intervention into Israel's confessed history — an atonement-by-zeal stage that anticipates the greater Priest whose zeal for God's house turns wrath from His people.

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