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5For he established{H8686)} a testimony in Jacob, and appointed{H8804)} a law in Israel, which he commanded{H8765)} our fathers, that they should make them known{H8687)} to their children:

Psalms 78:5

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  • And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

  • For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

  • These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

  • This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

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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