Psalms 78:68
But he chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67Yet was he disgusted with the tent of Joseph, and of the tribe of Ephraim he made not choice;
69And he built like high [mountains] his sanctuary, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet; until Shiloh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
1 Samuel 16:1And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him so as not to reign over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lechemite; for I have selected among his sons unto myself a king.
2 Chronicles 6:6But I have made choice of Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have made choice of David to be over my people Israel,
Psalms 132:12If thy children will observe my covenant and this my testimony which I teach them: then also shall their children sit for evermore upon the throne to succeed thee.”
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 →