Forgot

Deuteronomy 32:13-18 – He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag, with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape. Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior. They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God—gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear. You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Deuteronomy 33:5 – He was king over Jeshurun when the leaders of the people assembled, along with the tribes of Israel.

Genesis 49:24 – But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb.

Jeremiah 2:32 – Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

Hosea 8:14 – Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire on their cities that will consume their fortresses.”

Application:

• ·         The Lord, not an earthly monarch, was to be king over Israel.
• ·         “Rock of Israel” was Israel’s sure defense—a figure often used also in Psalms and Isaiah.
• ·         Israel was always to “remember” the Lord and all that He had done for her and so trust and worship Him alone, but she often “forgot” Him—put Him out of mind.
• ·         Israel’s trust was not in her Maker but in what she herself had accomplished.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV