Psalms 78:68
And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
In Context
67And He kicketh against the tent of Joseph, And on the tribe of Ephraim hath not fixed.
69And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his [is] the obedience of peoples.
1 Samuel 16:1And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, 'Till when art thou mourning for Saul, and I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I send thee unto Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, for I have seen among his sons for Myself a king.
2 Chronicles 6:6and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.
Psalms 132:12If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.
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 →