Psalms 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
1 Samuel 16:1The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself amongst his sons.”
2 Chronicles 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
Psalms 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
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 →