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Psalms 78:4
We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Israel's voice, addressing its own people in a deliberate act of remembrance, framed by what the fathers relayed (v. 3) and what Yahweh commanded them to teach (v. 5).
The words — נְכַחֵד (nəḵaḥēd, "we will hide") is a rare verb; the negative לֹא נְכַחֵד makes the commitment one of non-concealment rather than mere declaration.
The thread — The same intergenerational transmission mandate appears in Deuteronomy 11:19, Deuteronomy 4:9, and Joel 1:3.
Why it lands — It places the reader in a chain: what was received must be handed on, and the failure mode is not error but silence.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 11:19 Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Deuteronomy 4:9 Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
- Joel 1:3 Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.
- Psalms 145:4 One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Deuteronomy 6:7 And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
- Psalms 71:17 O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Psalms 10:1 Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
- Joshua 4:6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
- 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.
- Joshua 4:21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’