Psalms 87:2
LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
In Context
1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:5But to the place which LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation ye shall seek, and there thou shall come.
Psalms 78:67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 132:13For LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
Isaiah 14:32What then shall [a man] answer the messengers of the nation? That LORD has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 87:2-4
The Glory of Zion. 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains—the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was… Read the whole commentary →