Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- BSB Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- ESV Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- NKJV Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
- NASB Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
- NLT Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the Lord.
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Quick answer
David, like a teacher, calls his hearers to learn the fear of the Lord.
Overview
Shifting to instruction, David invites his hearers as children to be taught the fear of the Lord. Reverence for God can and must be learned and passed on. This teaching role anticipates Christ, the true teacher who instructs his people in the way of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Ps 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Prov 2:1–9My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
- Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
- Isa 28:9Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
- Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
- Prov 7:24Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
- Prov 4:1Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
- Matt 18:2–4Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,
- Ps 66:16Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
- Prov 8:32“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
- Prov 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- Mark 10:14–16But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.
- 2 Tim 3:15From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
- Eccl 11:9Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
- John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
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