And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Parallel translations
- WEB They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
- BSB And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
- NKJV Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
- NASB And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
- NLT Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.
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Quick answer
They remembered that God was their rock and redeemer. In crisis they recalled His saving character.
Overview
Under pressure they 'remembered that God was their rock' and 'redeemer.' These titles affirm God as both their stable refuge and the One who bought them out of bondage in Egypt. Such redemption foreshadows the greater redemption Christ accomplishes, delivering His people from slavery to sin.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Isa 41:14Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
- Exod 15:13Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
- Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
- Deut 7:8But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
- Deut 32:15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Ps 74:2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
- Ps 78:11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
- Ps 78:7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
- Ps 78:42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
- Deut 15:15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.
- Deut 9:26I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
- Ps 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
- Ps 106:21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
- Deut 32:30–31How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
- Exod 6:6Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
- Isa 44:6Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
- Isa 63:8–9For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
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