Psalms 68:15
There is a very high mountain in the Bashan region, a mountain which has many peaks.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill as the hill of Bashan.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:10“We captured all the towns on the ◄plateau/high level land►, and all the Gilead region, and all the Bashan region as far east as Edrei and Salecah towns, which also belonged to Og’s kingdom.”
Psalms 2:6Yahweh says, “I have installed my king on Zion, my sacred hill in Jerusalem.”
Psalms 87:1The city that Yahweh established is on his sacred hill.
Micah 7:14Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] a shepherd protects his sheep by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. Even though some of them live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead regions that they possessed long ago.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 68:8-15
Thankful Praises to God; Mercies Recollected. 7 O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah: 8 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel. 9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. 10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor. 11 The Lord gave the… Read the whole commentary →