Psalms 78:68
But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not be taken away from Juda, nor a ruler from his thigh, till he come that is to be sent, and he shall be the expectation of nations.
1 Samuel 16:1And the Lord said to Samuel. How It long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 Chronicles 6:6But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →