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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 135:12 → Deuteronomy 4:38

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 135:12BSB

He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 4:38BSB

to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.

Significance

Deuteronomy 4:38 describes God driving out nations "to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance" (לָתֶת לְךָ אֶת אַרְצָם נַחֲלָה, latet lekha et 'artzam nachalah), and Psalm 135:12 celebrates this fulfilled promise: "He gave their land as an inheritance (נַחֲלָה, nachalah), an inheritance to His people Israel." Both texts use the key term נַחֲלָה (nachalah, "inheritance") to describe the conquered land, linking divine military action to the gift of possession. Moses speaks of this inheritance prospectively ("to give"), while the psalmist celebrates it retrospectively as accomplished fact, converting Deuteronomic promise into hymnic thanksgiving for its fulfillment.

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