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Psalm 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
20Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
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The words “their Savior” sharpen the grief of Israel’s forgetting: the God they turned from had already done great things for them in Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 8:11Beware lest you forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;Deuteronomy warns against forgetting God through disobedience; the psalm records Israel forgetting their Savior.
Psalm 103:2Praise the LORD, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,Both passages link remembering God with remembering his goodness, one through praise and the other through an account of forgetting.
Deuteronomy 8:14then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;Both passages speak of forgetting the God who acted for his people in Egypt.
Jeremiah 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.Both passages describe God’s own people forgetting him, making their existing bond with him part of the charge.
Judges 8:34The children of Israel didn’t remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;Both passages recount Israel’s failure to remember the God who had saved them.
Isaiah 17:10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign …Both passages name the forgotten God as the source of salvation, underscoring whom the people have disregarded.
Psalm 78:42–51They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Both passages recount a failure to remember God’s saving action on behalf of his people.
Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Both passages describe forgetting God while naming what he had been to his people: Father and Savior.
Deuteronomy 32:17–18They 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.Deuteronomy describes sacrifices to other gods; the psalm’s surrounding account describes calf worship alongside forgetting God.
Psalm 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,Both verses in the same psalm recount forgetting, linking disregard for God with disregard for his works.
Psalm 78:11–12They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.Both passages recall God’s great deeds as things his people failed to remember.
Numbers 20:4Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?Both concern God’s people after Egypt, though Numbers voices fear of death rather than naming forgetfulness.
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Remembering begins with what God has done. This account faces Israel’s failure without erasing his deeds: the Savior they forgot had done great things in Egypt.
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