Psalms 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established for ever.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
1 Samuel 16:1And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill yours horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 Chronicles 6:6But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Psalms 132:12If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne for evermore.
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 →