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The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, yet they turned back on the day of battle.  They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His Law; they forgot His deeds and His miracles that He had shown them.  Psalm 78:9-11  NASB Turned back – You’re in the fight of your life.  It might seem calm…
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The Confident Fool

So that they would put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but comply with His commandments, and not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.  Psalm 78:7-8  NASB Confidence – The Hebrew word כִסְלָה (kislâ) is a bit strange. …
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Teach Your Children Well

For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they were to teach them to their children, so that the generation to come would know, the children yet to be born, that they would arise and tell them to their children,  Psalm 78:5-6  NASB Testimony/ law – Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.  Remember? Teach your children…
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In Plain Sight

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will tell riddles of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.  Psalm 78:2-3  NASB Known – Okay, so how can this be a parable or a riddle if we’ve known it for generations?  Was the insightful story and the dark saying passed down…
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Figure It Out

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will tell riddles of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.  Psalm 78:2-3  NASB Parable/ riddle – māšāl and ḥîdâ (parable and riddle).  How are these two terms connected? First, we need to know what the Hebrew idea of “parable” really is.  “A….
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Unfamiliar

Listen, my people, to my instruction; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.  Psalm 78:1  NASB Instruction – If you had to guess what Hebrew word is translated “instruction” you might be inclined to choose תּוֹרָה(tôrâ).  Not knowledge, not understanding, but teaching.  That’s correct.  It’s tôrâ.  But what you might not know is that…
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