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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 5:9

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 78:58BSB

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

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:9BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Significance

Deuteronomy 5:9 warns against idolatry because God is "a jealous God" (אֵל קַנָּא, 'El qanna'), and Psalm 78:58 records the violation that triggered His jealousy: "They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols." The psalm uses the cognate verb קנא (qn', "provoke to jealousy") from the Decalogue's warning, showing that the threatened consequence became historical reality. Israel's high-place worship and idol-making were precisely the behaviors the second commandment prohibited, and the resulting divine anger confirmed Moses's warning that jealous wrath would follow covenant unfaithfulness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Deuteronomy 5:9's self-revelation "I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God" (אֵל קַנָּא) and Psalm 78:58's cognate verb קנא ("provoked His jealousy") carry one developing theme of covenant jealousy from warning to historical outworking, the spiritual-adultery thread that runs on to Christ the faithful Bridegroom who secures His people's exclusive love.