Psalms 78:5
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:
KJV
Usquequo, Domine, irasceris in finem ? accendetur velut ignis zelus tuus ?
Vulgate
ἕως πότε, Κύριε, ὀργισθήσῃ εἰς τέλος; ἐκκαυθήσεται ὡς πῦρ ὁ ζῆλός σου;
LXX
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;
ASV
וַ/יָּ֤קֶם עֵד֨וּת בְּֽ/יַעֲקֹ֗ב וְ/תוֹרָה֮ שָׂ֤ם בְּ/יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִ֭וָּה אֶת אֲבוֹתֵ֑י/נוּ לְ֝/הוֹדִיעָ֗/ם לִ/בְנֵי/הֶֽם
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Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
This much is certain, that whoever knows the Ten Commandments perfectly knows the entire Scriptures, and in all affairs and circumstances of life can counsel, help, comfort, judge, and make decisions in both spiritual and temporal matters, and is qualified to sit in judgment upon all doctrines, estates, persons, laws, and everything else in the world. The Christian faith in its…
Cross-references
- 1John 5:9 — If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
- Deut 4:45 — 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,
- Deut 6:7 — 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.
- Deut 11:19 — And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Deut 11:19 — And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Eph 6:4 — And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
- Esth 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 m
- Exod 10:2 — And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
- Exod 25:21 — And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
- Exod 40:3 — And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
- Gen 18:19 — 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 h
- Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Isa 38:19 — The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
- Ps 19:7 — The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 78:3 — Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- Ps 81:5 — 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.
- Ps 103:7 — He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
- Ps 119:88 — Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
- Ps 147:19 — He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
- Ps 147:19 — He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
- Rom 3:2 — Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.