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Psalms 106:7
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Psalmist speaks to God on behalf of the worshipping congregation, placing the ancestors’ failure at the Red Sea between a confession of corporate sin and a declaration of God’s merciful rescue.
The words — הִשְׂכִּילוּ (his.Ki.lu) denotes they considered or grasped, and זָ֭כְרוּ (Za.khe.ru) denotes they remembered, both negated to state that the fathers actively failed to process or retain God’s wonders and kindness.
The thread — The text’s claim of forgotten wonders and subsequent rebellion runs directly into Exodus 14:11, where the people demand to know why they left Egypt, and repeats in Psalms 78:42 and Psalms 78:11, which record the same cycle of unremembered power and disobedience.
Why it lands — The passage requires readers to acknowledge that spiritual rebellion follows unrecorded divine acts, demanding intentional retention of God’s past deeds to sustain present faithfulness.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Cross-references
- Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
- Psalms 78:42 They did not remember His power—the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
- Psalms 78:11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
- Proverbs 1:22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
- Deuteronomy 15:15 Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.
- Deuteronomy 29:4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- Deuteronomy 32:28 Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
- Psalms 5:7 But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
- Psalms 51:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.