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Psalms 78:7

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

In Context

6that the generation to come might know, even the sons who should be born, who should arise and tell to their sons,

8and might not be as their fathers: a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but make them known to thy sons and thy son's sons--

Deuteronomy 6:12then beware lest thou forget LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Deuteronomy 6:25And it shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before LORD our God as he has commanded us.

Deuteronomy 8:2And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

Esther 9:27the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing of it, and according to the appoin

Psalms 62:5My soul, wait thou in silence for God only, for my expectation is from him.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:2-9

The Importance of Religious Instruction. 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord , and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our… Read the whole commentary →

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