←Psalm 106→BSB

In This Chapter 8 people 8 places 133 terms 1 theme 1 resource

People

Moses 4 Aaron 4 Abiram (Son of Eliab) 2 Phinehas 2 Israel 2 Dathan Jacob (Patriarch) Jeshurun (Israel)

Places

    Key Terms

    Kindness (Solidarity) 10 Save (Help) 9 Be Rebellious 8 To Acknowledge 7 Plague 6 Possession 5 Believe In 4 Justice (Right) 3 Delight 3 Salvation 3 Guilt (State) 3 Transgression 3 To Act Wickedly 3 To Redeem (Liberate) 3 Counsel 3 Holy 3 Fear 3 To Make an Oath 3 Be Unclean 3 Play the Prostitute (Idiom) 3 Take Notice 2 Salvation (Rescuer) 2 Be Zealous 2 Serve 2 Covenant 2 Bless (Approval) 2 Praise Be Kind Kindness (Benevolence) Kindness (Graciousness) Kindness (Affection) Be (Or Show Oneself) Just Acquit Righteousness (Standard) Righteousness (Act) Just Put Right With Make Righteous Deserved Justify (Vindicate) Justify Justly Justice Righteousness (Quality) Salvation (State) Save (Restore) Salvation (Physical) Salvation (Deliverance) Save (Rescue) Salvation (Means) Saving (Means) To Cause to Possess Possession To Sin Sin Sin (Act) Sin (Incur Guilt) Guilty (Responsible) Guilt (Consequence) Guiltiness Trespass (Sin) Sinful Sin (Offense) To Stand Guilty Sin (Guilty) Sin (Wrongdoing) Guilty Considered Guilty Guilty Of Sin Previously Sin Against Act Unjustly Have Insight Rebel (Act) Rebellion (Offense) Rebel (Against Authority) Rebellion Rebelliousness Redeem To Redeem (Deliver) Redemption (Right) To Redeem (Substitute) Let Be Redeemed Redemption (Deliverance) Be Holy Holy (Pure) Holy Thing Most Holy Place Holiness Holy (Devout) Hallow Sanctuary Greatness Glory (Presence of God) Glory (Splendor) Praise (Glorify) Praise (Respect) Fear (State) Awe (State) Fear (Terror) Fear (Reverence) Fear (Awe) Fearful Respect Respect (Among People) Slaughtering Force to Serve Enslave Hold in Bondage Gain Control Over Exempt Defilement (Act) Unclean (Ritually Contaminated) Uncleanness State of Impurity Impure Defile (Become Unclean) Impurity Unclean (Ritually Unacceptable) Defile (Ceremonial) To Soil Defilement (Stained) Desecrate Defilement (State) Covenant (NT) Covenant of Salt Blessing (Act) Bless (Favor) Blessing (Content) Blessed Bless (Request Favor) Surely! Truly (Amen)

    Themes

    God Works through Prayer

    Resources

    Exodus, the Articles

    Give Thanks to the LORD, for He Is Good

    ⓘ The Israelite community in exile confessed the Lord’s...
    • The Israelite community in exile confessed the Lord’s goodness and justice and their own historic sinfulness. From the humble state of exile, they pleaded for redemption and restoration, asking to be gathered back from all the places the Lord had scattered them in his wrath. The psalm does not end in despair but with the memory of the Lord’s former mercy and the hope that his mercy will be renewed (106:44–48). Israel failed, but the Lord is constant.
    • Verses 1, 47–48 (along with Pss 96; 105:1–15) are included in David’s song of praise recorded in 1 Chr 16:1–43.
    1Hallelujah!†
    Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good;His loving devotion endures forever.
    ⓘ Wise people who practice justice and righteousness receive...

    Wise people who practice justice and righteousness receive encouragement to proclaim the Lord’s great acts.
    2Who can describe the mighty acts of the LORDor fully proclaim His praise?3Blessed are those who uphold justice,who practice righteousness at all times.
    ⓘ The poet prays individually for the Lord’s favor...

    The poet prays individually for the Lord’s favor before leading the community confession that follows.
    4Remember me, O LORD, in Your favor to Your people;visit me with Your salvation,5that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,and give glory with Your inheritance.
    ⓘ The community joins together to confess their sins...

    The community joins together to confess their sins and their ancestors’ many acts of unbelief.
    6We have sinned like our fathers;we have done wrong and acted wickedly.7Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wondersor remember Your abundant kindness;but they rebelled by the sea,there at the Red Sea.†8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name,to make His power known.9He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;He led them through the depths as through a desert.10He saved them from the hand that hated them;He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.11The waters covered their foes;not one of them remained.12Then they believed His promisesand sang His praise.
    13Yet they soon forgot His worksand failed to wait for His counsel.14They craved intensely in the wildernessand tested God in the desert.15So He granted their request,but sent a wasting disease upon them.
    ⓘ The people became jealous because they presumed to...
    • The people became jealous because they presumed to have the same privileges as God’s appointed priests (see Num 16:1–35).
    • the earth opened up: See Num 16:28–33.
    16In the camp they envied Moses,as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it covered the assembly of Abiram.18Then fire blazed through their company;flames consumed the wicked.
    ⓘ they bowed before an image: The people forgot...

    they bowed before an image: The people forgot their Savior and committed the sin of idolatry (see Exod 32:1–6).
    19At Horeb† they made a calfand worshiped a molten image.20They exchanged their Glory†for the image of a grass-eating ox.21They forgot God their Savior,who did great things in Egypt,22wondrous works in the land of Ham,and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.23So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen onestood before Him in the breachto divert His wrath from destroying them.
    ⓘ The people disobeyed God’s command when they refused...
    • The people disobeyed God’s command when they refused to enter the pleasant land (the Promised Land; see Jer 3:19).
    • they wouldn’t believe his promise: See Num 13:25–14:12.
    24They despised the pleasant land;they did not believe His promise.25They grumbled in their tentsand did not listen to the voice of the LORD.
    ⓘ God’s judgment when Israel refused to obey was...

    God’s judgment when Israel refused to obey was death and exile (Num 14:26–30). The occasion for these severe judgments seems to have been disobeying God’s word (Ps 106:24–25) and provoking the Lord’s wrath (106:28–46).
    26So He raised His hand and sworeto cast them down in the wilderness,27to disperse† their offspring among the nationsand scatter them throughout the lands.
    ⓘ Israel’s idolatry outside of the land came with...

    Israel’s idolatry outside of the land came with them into the land. Their nature did not change; they continued to provoke the Lord to anger by their actions.
    28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peorand ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds,and a plague broke out among them.
    ⓘ Phinehas, who executed a flagrantly apostate Israelite man...

    Phinehas, who executed a flagrantly apostate Israelite man (Num 25:3–8), is an even better model of a righteous man than Moses, who failed at Meribah (Num 20:11–13).
    30But Phinehas stood and intervened,and the plague was restrained.31It was credited to him as righteousnessfor endless generations to come.
    32At the waters of Meribah† they angered the LORD,and trouble came to Moses because of them.33For they rebelled against His Spirit,†and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
    34They did not destroy the peoplesas the LORD had commanded them,35but they mingled with the nationsand adopted their customs.36They worshiped their idols,which became a snare to them.37They sacrificed their sonsand their daughters to demons.38They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters,whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,and the land was polluted with blood.39They defiled themselves by their actionsand prostituted themselves by their deeds.
    ⓘ The psalmist returns to the Babylonian exile (106:26–27)....

    The psalmist returns to the Babylonian exile (106:26–27). The Lord judged Israel severely, but he also restrained his wrath, remembering the covenant he had made with Abraham.
    40So the anger of the LORD burned against His people,and He abhorred His own inheritance.41He delivered them into the hand of the nations,and those who hated them ruled over them.42Their enemies oppressed themand subdued them under their hand.
    ⓘ When Israel was finally destroyed, the destruction was...

    When Israel was finally destroyed, the destruction was not complete. The Lord pitied them, so he left a remnant.
    43Many times He rescued them,but they were bent on rebellionand sank down in their iniquity.
    44Nevertheless He heard their cry;He took note of their distress.45And He remembered His covenant with them,and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.46He made them objects of compassionto all who held them captive.
    47Save us, O LORD our God,and gather us from the nations,that we may give thanks to Your holy name,that we may glory in Your praise.
    48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,from everlasting to everlasting.
    Let all the people say, “Amen!”
    Hallelujah!