Psalms 76:1
God is famous in Judah; his reputation is great throughout Israel.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
In Context
2He lives in Jerusalem; his home is in Zion.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:34Has any god tried to take a nation out of another nation and make them his own, using tests and signs and miracles and war—with his great power and incredible strength and terrifying actions—like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?
2 Chronicles 2:5This Temple I am about to build must be impressive, because our God is greater than all gods.
Psalms 48:1The Lord is supreme! He deserves praise in the city of our God on his holy mountain.
Psalms 54:1God, because of your very nature, please save me! Vindicate me by your power!
Psalms 67:1May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he look favorably on us. Selah.
Psalms 147:19He proclaims his word to Jacob; his rules and laws to Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 76:1
This psalm seems to have been penned upon occasion of some great victory obtained by the church over some threatening enemy or other, and designed to grace the triumph. The LXX. calls it, "A song upon the Assyrians," whence many good interpreters conjecture that it was penned when Sennacherib's army, then besieging Jerusalem, was entirely cut off by a destroying angel in Hezekiah's time; and several passages in the psalm are very applicable to that work of wonder: but there was a religious triumph upon occasion of… Read the whole commentary →