Psalms 78:69
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
In Context
68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, he lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, to make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD’S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Kings 9:8And though this house be so high, yet shall every one that passeth by be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
1 Chronicles 29:19and give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
2 Chronicles 3:4And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
Psalms 87:1His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Psalms 104:5Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved for ever.
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 →