Psalms 78:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 44:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,
  • Ps 48:8 : 8 As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.)
  • Exod 12:26-27 : 26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship? 27 Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.
  • Exod 13:8 : 8 And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:14-15 : 14 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house: 15 And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 78:4-8
    5 verses
    83%

    4We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

    5He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

    6So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

    7So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

    8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Ps 44:1
    83%

    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

  • Job 15:18
    78%

    18(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;

  • Joel 1:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

    3Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

  • Deut 32:7
    73%

    7Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

  • Lam 5:7
    72%

    7Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

  • Ps 78:2
    71%

    2Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

  • Prov 4:1
    70%

    1Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

  • Job 15:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

    10With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

  • 1 John 1:3
    70%

    3We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:

  • Ps 106:6
    70%

    6We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

  • Ps 71:17
    70%

    17O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Acts 13:32
    70%

    32And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,

  • Ps 22:4
    69%

    4Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

    28For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

  • John 3:11
    69%

    11Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

  • Deut 11:2
    69%

    2And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

  • Ps 145:4
    69%

    4One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.

  • Jer 14:20
    69%

    20We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • Ps 48:8
    68%

    8As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.)

  • Job 8:8
    68%

    8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

  • Isa 38:19
    68%

    19The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

  • Exod 10:2
    68%

    2And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.

  • Ps 126:3
    68%

    3The Lord has done great things for us; because of which we are glad.

  • Acts 4:20
    68%

    20For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.

  • Deut 31:13
    68%

    13And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • 1 John 3:19
    68%

    19In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

  • Ps 105:8
    68%

    8He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

  • Prov 1:8
    68%

    8My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

  • Job 5:27
    68%

    27See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

  • Josh 22:24
    68%

    24And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Deut 4:10
    68%

    10That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • Ps 79:13
    68%

    13So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.

  • Deut 29:29
    68%

    29The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.

  • Jer 3:24-25
    2 verses
    68%

    24But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

    25Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Isa 63:16
    68%

    16For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

  • Judg 2:10
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    10And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

  • Heb 1:1
    67%

    1In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways;

  • 1 John 3:1
    67%

    1See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • Heb 3:9
    67%

    9When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.