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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 78:58 → Deuteronomy 5:8

Echo

Later text

Psalm 78:58BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:8BSB

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

Significance

Deuteronomy 5:8 prohibits making any idol (פֶּסֶל, pesel), and Psalm 78:58 records the consequence of violation: Israel "provoked His jealousy with their idols" (בִּפְסִילֵיהֶם, bipesileihem). The psalm uses the Deuteronomic vocabulary of idolatry—the same term פֶּסֶל the commandment prohibits—to narrate the historical outcome: on hearing it, God "was furious and rejected Israel completely" (78:59). The psalmist connects the second commandment directly to the loss of Shiloh as God's dwelling place, demonstrating that the Deuteronomic prohibition against graven images was not merely theoretical but had devastating historical consequences when violated.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the Decalogue's ban on the פֶּסֶל (Deut 5:8) and Psalm 78:58's record of Israel provoking His jealousy with their idols (בִּפְסִילֵיהֶם) belong to the canonical theme of divine jealousy against images, traced from Sinai's prohibition through the loss of Shiloh (78:59-60) and onward until God gives the one true Image of Himself in His Son.