Forgetting God
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A characteristic of the wicked
Prov 2:17; Isa 65:11
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 2:1711 But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Isaiah 65:11 -
Backsliders guilty of
Jer 2:32; 3:21
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 2:3221 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 3:21 -
Is forgetting his covenant
Deut 4:23; 2 Kgs 17:38
23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 4:2338 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2 Kings 17:38 -
Works
Ps 78:7, 11; 106:13
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms 78:711 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psalms 78:1113 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalms 106:13 -
Benefits
Ps 103:2; 106:7
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Psalms 103:27 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.
Psalms 106:7 -
Word
Heb 12:5; Jas 1:25
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Hebrews 12:525 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:25 -
Law
Ps 119:153, 176; Hos 4:6
153 RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:153176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Psalms 119:1766 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea 4:6 -
The people of God
Ps 137:5
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Psalms 137:5 -
Past deliverances
Judg 8:34; Ps 78:42
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Judges 8:3442 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psalms 78:42 -
Power to deliver
Isa 51:13–15
13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 15 But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
Isaiah 51:13 -
Encouraged by false teachers
Jer 23:27
27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Jeremiah 23:27 -
Prosperity leads to
Deut 8:12–14; Hos 13:6
12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
Deuteronomy 8:126 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
Hosea 13:6 -
Trials should not lead to
Ps 44:17–20
17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms 44:17 -
Resolve against
Ps 119:16, 93
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:1693 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Psalms 119:93 -
Cautions against
Deut 6:12; 8:11
12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 6:1211 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
Deuteronomy 8:11 -
Exhortation to those guilty of
Ps 50:22
22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms 50:22 -
Punishment of
Job 8:12, 13; Ps 9:17; Isa 17:10, 11; Ezek 23:35; Hos 8:14
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
Job 8:1213 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 8:1317 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9:1710 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah 17:1011 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Isaiah 17:1135 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ezekiel 23:3514 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Hosea 8:14 -
Threatened
Job 8:13; Ps 9:17; 50:22; Isa 17:10; Jer 2:32; Hos 8:14
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 8:1317 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9:1722 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Psalms 50:2210 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Isaiah 17:1032 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 2:3214 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Hosea 8:14 - See Backsliders
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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
