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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 106:29-31 → Numbers 25:13

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 25:13BSB

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 "a covenant of permanent priesthood... because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites" (כִּפֶּר, kipper, "to make atonement"). Psalm 106:29-31 celebrates this atonement: "Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained. It was credited to him as righteousness for endless generations to come." The psalm's "endless generations" echoes the perpetuity of the Numbers covenant, confirming that Phinehas's act carried permanent significance. The psalm's phrase "credited to him as righteousness" (חָשַׁב לִצְדָקָה) creates a theological parallel with Abraham (Gen 15:6), suggesting that priestly zeal and patriarchal faith are equivalent expressions of covenant faithfulness.

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

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