Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
- BSB Come, 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 the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Ps 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
- Prov 2:1–9My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- Ps 32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
- Isa 28:9Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
- Prov 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
- Prov 7:24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
- Prov 4:1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
- Matt 18:2–4And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
- Ps 66:16Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
- Prov 8:32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that 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 much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
- 2 Tim 3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- Eccl 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
- John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
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