Psalms 78:61
and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
In Context
60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
Cross References
Exodus 40:34Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the LORD’s glory filled the tabernacle.
1 Samuel 4:17He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
1 Samuel 6:1The LORD’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
Psalms 24:7Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
Psalms 132:8Arise, LORD, into 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 →