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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

Psalms 81:16 → Deuteronomy 32:13

Allusion

Later text

Psalms 81:16BSB

But I would feed you the finest wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 32:13BSB

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

Significance

Psalm 81:16 promises "I would feed you with the finest wheat (חֵלֶב חִטָּה, chelev chittah); with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." Deuteronomy 32:13 uses nearly identical language: "He nourished him with honey from the rock (דְּבַשׁ מִסֶּלַע, devash missel'a) and with oil from the flinty rock." Both texts employ the distinctive motif of supernatural provision from rock — honey and finest produce emerging from stone — as symbols of God's abundant care. The psalm presents this as a conditional promise ("If My people would listen to Me"), while the Song of Moses presents it as historical fact, creating a tension between what God did provide and what Israel forfeited through disobedience.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme