That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
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Gill's Exposition
That the generation to come might know them,.... Not only notionally, but spiritually and experimentally; which is the case, when human teachings are attended with the spirit of wisdom and revertion…
Barnes' Notes
That the generation to come might know them ... - That people in future times might enjoy the benefit of them as their fathers had done, and that they should then send them forward to those who were…
These verses, which contain the preface to this history, show that the psalm answers the title; it is indeed Maschil - a psalm to give instruction; if we receive not the instruction it gives, it is…
Cambridge Bible
The A.V. follows the Massoretic division of the verse; but it is better to connect the clauses thus:
That another generation might know,
That sons which should be born might arise and tell their…
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