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3Which we have heard{H8804)} and known{H8799)}, and our fathers have told{H8765)} us.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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.
And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? …
And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: …
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
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 hi…
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