Psalms 78:3
“Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
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.
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:
Cross-References
“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;”
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”
“One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”
“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.”