Psalms 78:68
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67He disowned the tent of Joseph, he rejected the tribe of Ephraim;
69And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth which he founded forever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre will not pass from Judah, nor the royal staff from between his feet, and to him is due the obedience of the people.
Psalms 132:12If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons, too, forever, will sit on your 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 →