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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 → Exodus 20:5

Allusion

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

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 declares God to be "a jealous God" (אֵל קַנָּא, el qanna) who will not tolerate idolatrous worship, and Psalm 78:58-59 records the historical fulfillment: "They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy (קִנְאָה, qin'ah) with their idols. On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely." The psalm uses the very term for jealousy that the second commandment introduced, demonstrating that the theological warning given at Sinai played out in Israel's history. The divine rejection described in Psalm 78:59-60—God abandoning Shiloh—is the concrete historical consequence of the jealousy the Decalogue warned about.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme — the Decalogue's sanction "I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God" (Ex 20:5) and Psalm 78:58-59's record that Israel's idols aroused precisely that jealousy (קִנְאָה) unto rejection trace one canonical theme of jealous covenant love, from Sinai through Shiloh's forfeiture to its resolution in Christ, in whom God's jealousy for His own glory and for His people's love is satisfied.

▸ The Decalogue

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Spiritual Adultery (Covenant Faithfulness and Idolatry) Trajectory Table

Psalm 78:58-59 → Exodus 20:5

Significance

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