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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 106:44-46 → Leviticus 26:40

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 106:44-46BSB

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress. And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion. He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

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 26:40-45 outlines the exile-restoration cycle: confession leads to God remembering His covenant (וְזָכַרְתִּי, vezakharti). Psalm 106:44-46 narrates this pattern poetically: "He took note of their distress when He heard their cry; He remembered His covenant (וַיִּזְכֹּר לָהֶם בְּרִיתוֹ) for their sake and relented according to His abundant loving devotion." The psalmist presents Israel's history as a repeated cycle of rebellion, judgment, crying out, and divine remembrance — precisely the pattern Leviticus 26:40-45 prescribes. The psalm's plea in v.47 — "Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations" — demonstrates that the Levitical dispersion-and-restoration framework shaped Israel's liturgical prayers for return.

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