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Psalm 106:22
wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
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.
24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,
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The Red Sea recalls God’s awesome deeds within a confession of forgetting, exposing the gap between witnessing his power and trusting his word.
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Psalm 78:51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.Both recall God’s acts in Egypt, called Ham; Psalm 78 names the death of Egypt’s firstborn among those acts.
Exodus 34:10He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the …Both describe God’s work as awesome, with Exodus promising marvels before the people and the psalm recalling deeds already done.
Psalm 105:23Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.Both name the land of Ham, which Psalm 105 identifies as Egypt, where Israel lived.
Exodus 14:25–28He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for the LORD fights for them …The awesome deeds at the Red Sea include God disabling Egyptian chariots as he fought for Israel.
Isaiah 64:3When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.Both recall God doing awesome things; Isaiah describes his descent and the mountains quaking at his presence.
Genesis 10:6The sons of Ham were: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.Both mention Ham, though Genesis lists his sons while the psalm names a land where God worked wonders.
Genesis 14:5In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh …Both use the name Ham, though Genesis names a battle site and does not identify it with Egypt.
Exodus 3:20I will reach out my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do among them, and after that he will let you go.Both speak of God’s wonders in Egypt; Exodus describes those wonders as blows against Egypt that would lead to release.
Psalm 66:5Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men.Both describe God’s deeds as awesome, with Psalm 106 naming Egypt and the Red Sea as places of his work.
Psalm 78:12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.Both recall God’s marvelous works in Egypt, with Psalm 78 naming Zoan and the ancestors who witnessed them.
Exodus 15:10You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.Both recall God’s action at the sea; Exodus describes its deadly force as the waters covered those who sank.
2 Samuel 7:23What one nation on the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do …Both recall God’s awesome deeds connected with Egypt, where he acted to save Israel as his people.
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Israel’s forgetting did not erase what God had done in Egypt and at the sea. Their Savior’s works remained wondrous, even when his people turned away.
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