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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 78:58-59 → Deuteronomy 5:8

Echo

Later text

Psalm 78:58-59BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols. On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

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 idols "in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath," and Psalm 78:58 records Israel's violation: "They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy (יַקְנִיאוּהוּ, yaqni'uhu) with their idols (פְּסִילֵיהֶם, pesileihem)." The psalm uses the exact term for "graven images" (פֶּסֶל, pesel) that the second commandment prohibits and invokes the divine jealousy (קִנְאָה, qin'ah) that Deuteronomy 5:9 warns is the consequence of idolatry. The psalmist presents Israel's history of idol-worship as the direct trigger for God's abandonment of Shiloh (78:60), showing the concrete historical consequences of violating the commandment.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — Deuteronomy 5:8's image-ban and Psalm 78:58-59's record of provoked jealousy and enacted rejection ("God was furious and rejected Israel completely") form one strand of the canonical idolatry-and-jealousy theme, running from the Decalogue's sanction through the abandonment of Shiloh toward the covenant in which God wins undivided worship through His Son.