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Psalms 105:27
They performed His miraculous signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the covenant community, recounting the immediate aftermath of God’s commissioning of Moses and Aaron and the onset of the plague of darkness.
The words — The Hebrew verb שָׂם (sa.mu) literally means “they set” or “they placed,” used here with אֹתוֹת (‘o.to.Tot) for “signs” and מֹפְתִים (mo.fe.Tim) for “wonders.”
The thread — This specific formulation of signs and wonders in Egypt recurs in Psalms 78:43, Nehemiah 9:10, and Isaiah 63:11 as a fixed historical reference point.
Why it lands — The text records God’s direct intervention in human history, requiring the reader to acknowledge that divine authority precedes and overrides human defiance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
Cross-references
- Psalms 78:43 when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.
- Nehemiah 9:10 You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.
- Isaiah 63:11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
- Jeremiah 32:20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
- Exodus 7:1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Psalms 105:23 Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
- Psalms 105:28 He sent darkness, and it became dark—yet they defied His words.
- Psalms 106:22 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
- Psalms 135:8 He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.