Psalms 122:4
Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, [For] an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;
5For there are set thrones for judgment, The thrones of the house of David.
Cross References
Exodus 16:34As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Exodus 26:33And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Exodus 34:23Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Deuteronomy 12:11then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah.
Psalms 66:13I will come into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will pay thee my vows,
Psalms 81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 122:2-6
The Pleasures of Public Worship. 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord . 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord , unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord . 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Here we have, I. The pleasure which David and other pious Israelites took in approaching to and… Read the whole commentary →