How to read this page

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

Graph View — tap the constellation icon in the top bar to see this page's connections as a web of light: gold points are passages, and the coloured threads are the connection types. Click any type in the graph's own legend to filter it in or out, and use the expand control for the full-screen night sky.

New to a term? The Glossary explains every abbreviation and term on the site in plain words.

Intertextuality Pair

Psalm 106:29-31 → Numbers 25:11

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:29-31BSB

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come.

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 describes Phinehas turning back God's wrath by acting with divine קִנְאָה (qin'ah, "zeal/jealousy") at Baal-Peor. Psalm 106:29-31 recounts this episode: "They provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. It was credited to him as righteousness." The psalm's phrase "credited as righteousness" (תֵּחָשֶׁב לִצְדָקָה) deliberately echoes Abraham's faith in Genesis 15:6, elevating Phinehas's zealous intervention to the same theological category. The psalm thus interprets Phinehas's physical act as an expression of faith-filled covenant loyalty that secured lasting favor.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 2