Joshua 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

A sign

Ezekiel 20:12

When your

General references

Joel 1:3

Bible References

A sign

rather it shall be a witness between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings, so that your sons will not say to our sons in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as

a permanent ordinance.

And it shall serve as a sign to you on your hand, and as a reminder on your forehead, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

“But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”

“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up,
And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up,
And it will be a

memorial to the Lord,

For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.”

Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

When your

He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’

And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’

And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

You shall teach them to your sons, talking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road and when you lie down and when you rise up.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

“It is the living who give thanks to You, as I do today;
A father tells his sons about Your faithfulness.

For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

General references

Tell your sons about it,

And let your sons tell their sons,
And their sons the next generation.