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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 → Exodus 20:5

Allusion

Later text

Psalm 78:58BSB

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

Earlier text

Exodus 20:5BSB

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

Exodus 20:5 warns that God is "jealous" (קַנָּא, qanna) and will punish those who worship other gods, and Psalm 78:58 records how Israel "provoked His jealousy with their idols" (פְּסִילֵיהֶם, pesileihem). The shared jealousy vocabulary (ק-נ-א root) connects the Sinai warning to its historical violation. The psalm functions as a retrospective validation of the second commandment—the jealousy God attributed to Himself at Sinai was indeed aroused by Israel's idolatry, resulting in the divine fury and rejection that the commandment itself had threatened.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Exodus 20:5's warning of the jealous God (קַנָּא) and Psalm 78:58's report that Israel provoked that very jealousy (קִנְאָה) trace the single canonical theme of covenant jealousy from Sinai's sanction to its historical vindication at Shiloh, a thread that culminates in the jealous love with which Christ purifies a people for Himself.

▸ The Decalogue

Linked Mentions 2

Trajectory Tables 1

Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry) Trajectory Table

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 20 — The Decalogue

Psalm 78:58 → Exodus 20:5

Significance

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