Psalms 78:61
And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
In Context
60And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;
62He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.
Cross References
Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 4:17And he that brought the tidings answered and said: 'Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.'
1 Samuel 6:1And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in.
Psalms 132:8Arise, O LORD, unto Thy resting-place; Thou, and the ark of Thy strength.
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 →