Deuteronomy 4:9

Israel must guard their souls, not forget what they saw, and teach it to their children. It stresses remembrance and passing on the faith.

Cross-references · 31

• Deut 6:7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
• Deut 11:19You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
• Ps 78:3–8Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
• Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
• Deut 32:46He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• Eph 6:4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Exod 13:8–9You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
• Deut 29:29The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
• Prov 4:20–23My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
• Prov 4:1–13Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
• Prov 23:26My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Prov 3:1–3My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
• Prov 1:8My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
• Ps 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Prov 3:21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
• Josh 4:6–7that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
• Ps 34:11–16Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
• Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
• Josh 4:21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
• Exod 13:14–16It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
• Prov 7:1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
• Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• Deut 4:23Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
• Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
• Jas 2:22You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;
• Deut 31:19“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
• Luke 8:18Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”
• Deut 4:15Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,
• Josh 1:18Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

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