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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
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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 96:7-8 → Psalms 29:1-2

Allusion

Later text

Psalms 96:7-8BSB

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and enter His courts.

Earlier text

Psalms 29:1-2BSB

A Psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.

Significance

Psalm 96:7-8 calls "Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength" (הָבוּ לַיהוָה מִשְׁפְּחוֹת עַמִּים, havu laYHWH mishpechot ammim). Psalm 29:1-2 contains the identical tripartite "ascribe" formula: "Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings (בְּנֵי אֵלִים, bene elim), ascribe to the LORD glory and strength." The nearly word-for-word correspondence — differing only in the addressee — suggests that Psalm 96 deliberately adapts Psalm 29's heavenly call for an earthly audience. What the celestial beings owe God in Psalm 29, all human families owe Him in Psalm 96, extending the summons to worship from the divine council to the nations of the earth.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy — Psalm 96:7-8 reapplies Psalm 29:1-2's threefold "Ascribe to the LORD" formula while transposing the addressee from heavenly beings (בְּנֵי אֵלִים) to "families of the nations," an intended correspondence — as the celestial council gives glory, so must all earth's peoples — that anticipates the day every creature in heaven and on earth ascribes glory to the Lamb (Rev 5:13).