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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 25:13

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 25:13BSB

It will be a covenant of permanent priesthood and his descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

Significance

Numbers 25:13 grants Phinehas an eternal priestly covenant because he made כִּפֶּר (kipper, "atonement") for Israel through his zealous act. Psalm 106:29 recalls the context: "They provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them." Israel had yoked itself to Baal of Peor and eaten sacrifices offered to dead gods (v. 28), provoking the plague that only Phinehas's intervention could stop. The psalm situates the Baal-Peor apostasy within a sweeping historical confession that moves from Egypt through the wilderness to Canaan, treating it as paradigmatic of Israel's recurring tendency to exchange covenant loyalty for idolatrous worship.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression — the plague Psalm 106:29 confesses is the crisis behind Numbers 25:13's covenant of permanent priesthood, granted because Phinehas "made atonement for the Israelites"; the psalm's liturgical retrospect keeps that atoning intervention in Israel's memory as redemptive history moves toward the Priest whose single act of atonement secures an unchangeable priesthood.

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Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry) Trajectory Table