Psalms 76:1
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
King James Version
In Context
2In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
2 Chronicles 2:5And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Psalms 54:1Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.
Psalms 67:1God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
Psalms 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 76:1
This psalm seems to have been penned upon occasion of some great victory obtained by the church over some threatening enemy or other, and designed to grace the triumph. The LXX. calls it, "A song upon the Assyrians," whence many good interpreters conjecture that it was penned when Sennacherib's army, then besieging Jerusalem, was entirely cut off by a destroying angel in Hezekiah's time; and several passages in the psalm are very applicable to that work of wonder: but there was a religious triumph upon occasion of… Read the whole commentary →