Psalms 78:6 · KJV
“That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:”
— Psalms 78:6
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:
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psalms 78 — Context
We will not hide {them} from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5For 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:
6That the generation to come might know {them, even} the children {which} should be born; {who} should arise and declare {them} to their children:
7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation {that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {that...: Heb. that prepared not their heart}
Cross References
Joel 1:3
Tell ye your children of it, and {let} your children {tell} their children, and their children another generation.
Psalms 102:18
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Psalms 22:31
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done {this}.
Psalms 145:4
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
Psalms 90:16
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
Esther 9:28
And {that} these days {should be} remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and {that} these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. {fail: Heb. pass} {perish: Heb. be ended}
Deuteronomy 4:10
{Specially} the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and {that} they may teach their children.
Psalms 48:13
Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell {it} to the generation following. {Mark...: Heb. Set your heart to} {consider: or, raise up}