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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 106:44 → Leviticus 26:40

Echo

Later text

Psalm 106:44BSB

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Earlier text

Leviticus 26:40BSB

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

Significance

Leviticus 26:40-42 promises that after confession, God will "remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham." Psalm 106:44 narrates historical instances of this pattern: "He took note of their distress when He heard their cry." The psalm's entire structure — chronicling cycles of Israel's rebellion, God's judgment, the people's crying out, and God's compassionate rescue — operationalizes the Levitical confession-and-restoration mechanism. The covenant remembrance of Leviticus 26:42 becomes the recurring pattern in Psalm 106, where God's faithfulness to His covenant repeatedly overcomes Israel's faithlessness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme