Psalms 78:3 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 78:3

that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

BSB

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ASV

Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

KJV

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This history had been handed down (Ex 12:14; De 6:20) for God's honor, and that the principles of His law might be known and observed by posterity. This important sentiment is reiterated in (Ps 78:7, 8) negative form.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
שָׁ֭מַעְנוּ	Sha.ma'.nu	we have heard	H8085 →
וַנֵּדָעֵ֑ם	va.ne.da.'Em	and we have known them	H3045 →
וַ֝אֲבוֹתֵ֗ינוּ	va.'a.vo.Tei.nu	and ancestors our	H1 →
סִפְּרוּ־	si.pe.ru-	they have recounted	H5608 →
לָֽנוּ׃	La.nu	to us

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5608siperu-they have recounted159×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 44:1
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
leads to
- Psalms 78:3–6
  that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Exodus 13:14–15
  In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Deuteronomy 6:20
  In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
- Judges 6:13
  “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the…
- Joel 1:3
  Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
Through
Psalms 48:8
As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
leads to
- Psalms 87:5
  And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
- Micah 4:1
  In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to…
Through
Exodus 13:8
And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
leads to
- Exodus 13:14
  In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Psalms

Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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