3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4. We will not hide them from their children, but we will tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonderful works that He has performed.
5. For He established a testimony (an express precept) in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, commanding our fathers that they should make [the great facts of God's dealings with Israel] known to their children,
6. That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children,
7. That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but might keep His commandments
8. And might not be as their fathers–a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their hearts aright nor prepared their hearts to know God, and whose spirits were not steadfast and faithful to God.
9. The children of Ephraim were armed and carrying bows, yet they turned back in the day of battle.
10. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk according to His law