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

but that it may be a witness between us and you and our generations after us, to do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it as a feast unto the LORD throughout your ages; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand and for a memorial before thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the LORD has brought thee out of Egypt.

And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, With all this ye shall keep my sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your ages; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

the censers of these sinners are sanctified against their own souls, and broad plates shall be made of them for a covering of the altar, for they offered with them before the LORD; therefore, they are sanctified, and they shall be a sign unto the sons of Israel.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an eternal sign that shall not be cut off.

And I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctifies them.

When your

And he spoke unto the sons of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean unto you?

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What do you mean by this service?

And it shall be when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What is this? Thou shalt say unto him, With a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery;

And when tomorrow thy son asks thee, saying, What are the testimonies and the statutes and the rights, which the LORD our God has commanded you?

And ye shall teach them to your children that ye may think of them sitting in thy house and walking by the way, lying down in bed, and rising up.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days in the times of old.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have showed the strength of thy arm unto the next generation and thy power to every one that is to come,

which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

He who lives, he who lives, even he shall confess thee, as I do this day; the father to the sons shall make known thy truth.

For the promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

General references

Tell your sons of it, and let your sons tell their sons, and their sons another generation.