Psalm 78:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

For he

Testimony

Exodus 25:16

Exodus 40:3

That they

General references

Joel 1:3

Bible References

For he

He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph
when He went throughout the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar language:

Long ago I learned from Your decrees
that You have established them forever.

He declares His word to Jacob,
His statutes and judgments to Israel.

These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,

Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted with the spoken words of God.

If we accept the testimony of men, God’s testimony is greater, because it is God’s testimony that He has given about His Son.

Testimony

Put the tablets of the testimony that I will give you into the ark.

Put the ark of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the veil.

That they

things we have heard and known
and that our fathers have passed down to us.

For I have chosen him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfill to Abraham what He promised him.”

The living, only the living can thank You,
as I do today;
a father will make Your faithfulness known to children.

Fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

General references

On that day explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.”

Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Then their children who do not know the law will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Tell your children about it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children the next generation.