Dictionary of Bible Themes The process of accidentally or deliberately failing to remember people, events or ideas. Scripture rebukes those who forget the past work of God in history or in their lives or who neglect their present responsibilities towards God in order to please themselves. 2 Peter 3:5Causes of forgetting Forgetting can be deliberate Jeremiah 23:25-27See also Forgetting can be caused by idolatry Deuteronomy 32:15-18Judges 3:7 Jeremiah 18:15 Hosea 2:13 Hosea 13:4-6 See also Forgetting can be caused by pride 2 Chronicles 26:16Psalms 10:4 Proverbs 31:4-5 See also Forgetting can be caused by drinking Genesis 9:20-21Matthew 24:45-51 Psalms 102:4 pp Lk 12:42-46 See also Forgetting can be caused by affliction Genesis 41:28-31Lamentations 3:17-20 Genesis 40:23 Forgetting people See also Job 19:13-15Psalms 31:11-12 Deuteronomy 32:18 Forgetting God See also Judges 2:10-131 Samuel 12:9-10 Psalms 78:11-20 Forgetting God's acts in the past See also Judges 8:33-34Nehemiah 9:16-17 Psalms 106:7-13 Psalms 50:22 Consequences of forgetting God See also Forgetting God brings suffering on the individual 1 Samuel 12:9Isaiah 17:10-11 2 Samuel 12:9 Forgetting God brings suffering on others See also Psalms 106:13-15David's forgetting of God in his adultery with Bathsheba led to her husband Uriah suffering death through David's manipulation of events. Jeremiah 3:21Deuteronomy 8:19-20 See also Forgetting God brings destruction on the nation Isaiah 65:11-12Hosea 8:14 Deuteronomy 6:12 Warnings not to forget God See also Deuteronomy 4:9; 8:10-142 Kings 17:35-38 Psalms 13:1 People may sometimes feel that God has forgotten them See also Psalms 42:9-10; 44:23-24Isaiah 49:14 Matthew 27:46 Psalms 22:1 pp Mk 15:34 Isaiah 44:21God promises never to forget his people See also Isaiah 49:15-16Hebrews 6:10 Isaiah 43:18 Things God urges believers to forget See also Philippians 3:13-15See also 5052 responsibility to God7396 Most Holy Place 8251 faithfulness to God 8469 respect 8495 witnessing 8646 doxology 8672 striving with God 8718 disobedience 8743 faithlessness 8765 grudge 8784 nominal religion 8840 unfaithfulness to God |
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