stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
Parallel translations
- WEB Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- KJV Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- BSB that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- NKJV Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
- NASB Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
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Quick answer
These truths were heard and known, passed down by the fathers to their children.
Overview
Asaph grounds his teaching in the reliable testimony handed down through generations. The faith rests on God's real acts in history, faithfully transmitted. This emphasis on receiving and preserving God's works underscores the responsibility of each generation to know and pass on the truth.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 44:1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
- Exod 13:8You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’
- Exod 13:14–15It 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.
- Exod 12:26–27It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
- Ps 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.
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