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Psalms 78:12

While our ancestors were watching, God performed miracles in the area around Zoan city in Egypt.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

In Context

11They forgot what he had done; they forgot about the miracles that they had seen him perform.

13Then he caused the Red Sea to divide, causing the water on each side to pile up like a wall, with the result that our ancestors walked through it on dry ground.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:1Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Listen carefully. Just like I enabled prophet to speak my messages, I will cause the king to consider that you are like a god, and that Aaron is like a prophet.

Numbers 13:22In the south, they went to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, huge men descended from Anak, lived. Hebron was a city that was built seven years before Zoan city was built in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 6:22They saw him do many kinds of miracles [DOU] and do terrifying things to the people of Egypt and to the king and his officials.

2 Kings 17:7Those things happened because the Israeli people had sinned against Yahweh their God. He had rescued their ancestors from the power [MTY] of the king of Egypt and brought them safely out of Egypt, but later they began to worship other gods.

Psalms 78:42They forgot about his great power, and they ◄forgot/did not think► about the time when he rescued them from their enemies.

Psalms 105:27Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt, in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:10-40

Wonders Wrought in Behalf of Israel; The Crimes of the Israelites; 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap. 14 In the daytime… Read the whole commentary →

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Study Psalms 78:12

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