1 Samuel 12:6

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1 Samuel 12:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 “You have not wronged us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”

5 Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.

6 Then Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is the One who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

7 Now present yourselves, so that I may confront you before the LORD with all the righteous acts He has done for you and your fathers.

8 When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

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Exodus 6:26

It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.”

Nehemiah 9:9

You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Nehemiah 9:10

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the people of his land, for You knew they had acted with arrogance against our fathers. You made a name for Yourself that endures to this day.

Nehemiah 9:11

You divided the sea before them, and they crossed through it on dry ground. You hurled their pursuers into the depths like a stone into raging waters.

Nehemiah 9:12

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.

Nehemiah 9:13

You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.

Nehemiah 9:14

You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.

Psalms 77:19

Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.

Psalms 77:20

You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 78:12

He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13

He split the sea and brought them through; He set the waters upright like a wall.

Psalms 78:14

He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

Psalms 78:15

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

Psalms 78:16

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

Psalms 78:18

They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.

Psalms 78:19

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

Psalms 78:21

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel,

Psalms 78:22

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Psalms 78:23

Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

Psalms 78:24

He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.

Psalms 78:25

Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

Psalms 78:26

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

Psalms 78:27

He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

Psalms 78:28

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Psalms 78:29

So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

Psalms 78:30

Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31

God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Psalms 78:33

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

Psalms 78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

Psalms 78:36

But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.

Psalms 78:37

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalms 78:38

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

Psalms 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Psalms 78:40

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Psalms 78:41

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:42

They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psalms 78:43

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

Psalms 78:44

He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Psalms 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47

He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Psalms 78:48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Psalms 78:49

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity— a band of destroying angels.

Psalms 78:50

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Psalms 78:51

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78:52

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

Psalms 78:53

He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psalms 78:54

He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

Psalms 78:55

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

Psalms 78:56

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

Psalms 78:57

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

Psalms 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Psalms 78:59

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

Psalms 78:60

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

Psalms 78:61

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

Psalms 78:62

He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Psalms 78:63

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Psalms 78:64

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

Psalms 78:65

Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

Psalms 78:66

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.

Psalms 78:67

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalms 78:68

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalms 78:69

He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth He has established forever.

Psalms 78:70

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71

from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.

Psalms 78:72

So David shepherded them with integrity of heart and guided them with skillful hands.

Psalms 99:6

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

Psalms 105:26

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Psalms 105:41

He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.

Isaiah 63:7

I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us— the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

Isaiah 63:8

For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.

Isaiah 63:11

Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,

Isaiah 63:12

who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

Isaiah 63:13

who led them through the depths like a horse in the wilderness, so that they did not stumble?

Isaiah 63:14

Like cattle going down to the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. You led Your people this way to make for Yourself a glorious name.

Hosea 12:13

But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Micah 6:4

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.