Psalms 76:1
“To the chief musician on Neginoth, a psalm or song of Assaph.” (76:2) In Judah hath God been made known: in Israel is his name great.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
In Context
2(76:3) And in Salem was his tabernacle made, and his dwelling-place in Zion.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes.
2 Chronicles 2:5(2:4) And the house which I am building is great; for greater is our God than all the gods.
Psalms 48:1“A song and psalm by the sons of Korach.” (48:2) Great is the Lord, and highly praised in the city of our God, [in] his holy mountain.
Psalms 54:1“To the chief musician on Neginoth, a Maskil of David, (54:2) When the Ziphim came and said to Saul, Behold, David is hiding himself with us.” (54:3) O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength grant me justice.
Psalms 67:1“To the chief musician on Neginoth, a psalm or song.” (67:2) May God be gracious unto us, and bless us; may he cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.
Psalms 147:19He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto 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 →