Psalms 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
69And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, as long as men come to Shiloh; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
1 Samuel 16:1And the LORD said unto Samuel: 'How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided Me a king among his sons.'
2 Chronicles 6:6but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there; and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.
Psalms 132:12If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.'
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 →