Psalms 78:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

Psalms 78:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 13:34-35
All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: …
Matthew 13:11-13
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. …
Mark 4:34
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Psalms 49:4
I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

These verses, which contain the preface to this history, show that the psalm answers the title; it is indeed Maschil—a psalm to give instruction; if we receive not the instruction it gives, it is our own fault. Here, I. The psalmist demands attention to what he wrote (Ps. 78:1): Give ear, O my people! to my law. Some make these the psalmist’s words. David, as a king, or Asaph, in his name, as his…