Psalms 78:61
He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
In Context
60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
62He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.
Cross References
Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 4:17The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
1 Samuel 6:1When the ark of the LORD had been in the land of the Philistines seven months,
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
Psalms 132:8Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your 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 →