Verse 1

To the chiefe musition, a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach. We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 13:14-15 : 14 And when thy sonne aske thee in time to come, saying: what is this? Thou shalt saye vnto hym: With a myghtie hande the Lorde brought vs out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 15 And when Pharao was very loth to let vs go, the Lorde slewe all the first borne in the lande of Egypt, aswell the first borne of man, as the firstlyng of beast: Therefore I sacrifice vnto the Lorde all the males that open the matrice: but all the first borne of my chyldren I redeeme.
  • Ps 78:3-6 : 3 Which we haue hearde and knowen: and such as our fathers haue tolde vs. 4 We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done. 5 For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children. 6 To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, and children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach. Lyke as the Hart brayeth for water brookes: so panteth my soule after thee O God.
  • Ps 71:18 : 18 Wherfore whylest I am olde and am gray headed: O Lorde forsake me not, vntyll I haue shewed thy arme vnto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
  • Ps 77:5 : 5 I dyd thynke vpon the dayes past: and on the yeres of the olde worlde.
  • Exod 12:24-27 : 24 Therfore shall ye obserue this thyng for an ordinaunce to thee & thy sonnes for euer. 25 And when ye be come to the lande whiche the Lorde wyll geue you, accordyng as he hath promised, ye shall kepe this seruice. 26 And when your chyldren aske you, what maner of seruice is this ye do? 27 Ye shall saye, it is the sacrifice of the Lordes passouer, whiche passed ouer the houses of the chyldren of Israel in Egypt, and he smote the Egyptians, and saued our houses. And the people bowed them selues, and worshipped.
  • Ps 105:1-2 : 1 Confesse you it vnto God, call vppon his name: cause the people to vnderstande his deuises. 2 Sing vnto hym, sing psalmes vnto him: talke you of all his wonderous workes.
  • Isa 38:19 : 19 But the lyuyng, yea the lyuyng knowledge thee, as I do this day: the father telleth his children of thy faythfulnesse.
  • Joel 1:3 : 3 Of this thyng tell your children, and let your children shewe it to their children, and their children to their posteritie afterwarde.
  • Num 21:14-16 : 14 Wherfore, it shalbe spoken in the booke of the warres of the Lord, what thyng he dyd in the red sea, and in the riuers of Arnon, 15 And at the streame of the riuers, that goeth downe to the dwellyng of Ar, and lyeth vpon the border of Moab. 16 From thence they returned vnto Beer: The same is the well wherof the Lord spake vnto Moyses: Gather the people together, and I will geue them water.
  • Num 21:27-30 : 27 Wherfore they that speake in prouerbes, say: Come to Hesbon, and let the citie of Sehon be built and repayred. 28 For there is a fire gone out of Hesbon, and a flambe from the citie of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar in Moab, and the lordes of Bamoth in Arnon. 29 Wo to thee Moab, O people of Chamos ye are vndone: he hath suffered his sonnes to be pursued, & his daughters to be in captiuitie vnto Sehon the kyng of the Amorites. 30 Their empire is lost from Hesbon vnto Dibon, and we made a wildernesse euen vnto Nopha, which reacheth vnto Medaba.
  • Deut 6:20 : 20 And when thy sonne asketh thee in tyme to come, saying: What meaneth these testimonies, ordinaunces, and lawes, which the Lorde our God hath commaunded you?
  • Judg 6:13 : 13 And Gedeon aunswered him: Oh my Lord, if the Lorde be with vs, why is all this come vpon vs? Yea, & where be all his miracles which our fathers tolde vs of, and sayd: Dyd not the Lord bryng vs out of Egypt? But nowe the Lord hath forsaken vs, and deliuered vs into the handes of the Madianites.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)
  • Job 15:17-19 : 17 I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene: 18 Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them.
  • Ps 22:31 : 31 They wyll come and declare his righteousnesse vnto a people that shalbe borne: for he hath done it.