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Psalms 78:5

How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

In Context

4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 1

6Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon your name. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 12:27that you⌃ shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

Exodus 25:21And you shall set the propitiatory on the ark above, and you shall put into the ark the testimonies which I shall give you.

Exodus 40:20And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staves + 40:20 Gr. under. by the sides of the ark.

Deuteronomy 6:7And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them sitting in the house, and walking by the way, and lying down, and rising up.

Deuteronomy 31:13And their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear the Lord your God all the days that they live upon the land, into which you⌃ go over Jordan to inherit it.

Psalms 19:7Some glory in chariots, and some in horses: but we will + 19:7 Gr. be magnified. glory in the name of the Lord our God. 1

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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