They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
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They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
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They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
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They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;
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- Psalms 78:42-51 They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
- Deuteronomy 32:17-18 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread. Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
- Psalms 78:11-12 They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- Psalms 106:13 They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
- Jeremiah 2:32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
- Psalms 135:9 He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.
- Titus 3:4-6 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;
- Deuteronomy 6:22 and Yahweh showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
- Deuteronomy 7:18-19 you shall not be afraid of them. You shall remember well what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Nehemiah 9:10-11 and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is today. You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the middle of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Psalms 74:13-14 You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.
- Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 45:21 Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
- Isaiah 63:8 For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.
- Hosea 1:7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
- Titus 1:3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
- Titus 2:10 not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
- Luke 1:47 My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 21. They forgot God The prophet again repeats that…
21. They forgot God The prophet again repeats that the people had sinned not simply through ignorance, but also wilfully, inasmuch as God had already given a very palpable manifestation of his power and glory. And as he makes himself known in the creation of the heavens and of the earth, the blindness of men is totally inexcusable. But far more aggravating is the sin of the children of Israel, who, after God had made himself known to them, in the most condescending manner, cast him off altogether, and gave themselves up to the practice of brutish idolatry. And God having from heaven put forth his Almighty power for their salvation, there must surely be no little importance attached to such displays of his power as proclaim the praise and honor of his great name. Had he merely given an ordinary token of his power, even that ought to have attracted so much consideration as should have kept the people in the fear and worship of God. Now, that these miracles were so very notable, or rather terrible and rare, the people acted a very base part to shut their eyes upon them, and give themselves over to idolatry. For as the darkness is dispelled by the beamy lustre of the sun, so all inventions and perverse errors should vanish before such knowledge of God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had…
Psa 106:21 They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Ver. 21. They forgat God their saviour] This is often mentioned as the mother of all the misrule among them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They forgat God their Saviour,.... Not only forgat the…
They forgat God their Saviour,.... Not only forgat the works of God, Psa 106:13, but forgat God that did those mighty works; forgat that there was a God; or however forgat him that is the only true and living God, when they said of the molten image, "these are thy gods, O Israel"; and what aggravated their crime was, they forgot that God that had saved them in so wonderful a manner out of the hand of their enemies, for his own name's sake; and had led them safely through the Red sea as on dry land, and destroyed those that hated them.
Which had done great things in Egypt: meaning the ten plagues on the Egyptians, and the deliverance of the Israelites from them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain They forgat God their Saviour ... - The God…
They forgat God their Saviour ... - The God who had saved, or delivered them, out of Egypt. The sentiment here is the same as in Psa 78:11-12. See the notes at that place.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. They forgat God—This was the source of all…
21. They forgat God—This was the source of all their sin. See Psa_78:11. The original passage is Deu_32:18
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21, 22. These verses emphasise the ingratitude of the…
21, 22. These verses emphasise the ingratitude of the Israelites. The land of Ham as in Psa_105:23; Psa_105:27 from Psa_78:51.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) Forgot God their saviour.—With evident allusion to Deu_6:12.
(21) Forgot God their saviour.—With evident allusion to Deu_6:12.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain They forgat God their Saviour (comp. ver. 13). "God…
They forgat God their Saviour (comp. ver. 13). "God their Saviour" is "God who had so recently saved them out of the hands of Pharaoh." Which had done great things in Egypt. The allusion is principally to the long series of "plagues."
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 21. They forgat God their saviour. Remembering the…
Ver. 21. They forgat God their saviour. Remembering the calf involved forgetting God. He had commanded them to make no image, and in daring to disobey they forgot his commands. Moreover, it is clear that they must altogether have forgotten the nature and character of Jehovah, or they could never have likened him to a grass eating animal. Some men hope to keep their sins and their God toothe fact being that he who sins is already so far departed from the Lord that he has actually forgotten him.
Which had done great things in Egypt. God in Egypt had overcome all the idols, and yet they so far forgot him as to liken him to them. Could an ox work miracles? Could a golden calf cast plagues upon Israel's enemies? They were brutish to set up such a wretched mockery of deity, after having seen what the true God could really achieve. "Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea". They saw several ranges of miracles, the Lord did not stint them as to the evidences of his eternal power and godhead, and yet they could not rest content with worshipping him in his own appointed way, but must needs have a Directory of their own invention, an elaborate ritual after the old Egyptian fashion, and a manifest object of worship to assist them in adoring Jehovah. This was enough to provoke the Lord, and it did so; how much he is angered every day in our own land no tongue can tell.
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Ver. 21. They forgat God. To devise images and pictures to put, us in the mind of God, is a very forgetting both of God's nature and of his authority, which prohibits such devices, for so doth the Lord expound it: "They forgat God their saviour." David Dickson.
Ver. 21. Let us observe in this place that Israel is now for the third time accused of forgetting God; above in Ps 106:7, afterwards in Ps 106:13, and now in Ps 106:21. And that he might shew the greatness of this forgetfulness he does not simply say they forgat God, but adds, their Saviour: not the Saviour of their fathers in former times, but their own Saviour. Musculus.
Psalms 106:22*
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