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 gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.

Testimony

Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you.

And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.

That they

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

General references

And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.

So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:

And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.