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Psalms 78:68

โ€œBut chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.โ€

Psalms 78:68 in the King James Version

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
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Verse in context โ€” Psalms 78

66

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

69

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

70

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

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Cross references for Psalms 78:68

  • Psalms 87:2

    Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

  • Genesis 49:8-10

    Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons will bow down before you. Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a l...

  • Psalms 132:12-14

    If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore." For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. "This is my resting place forever. Here...

  • 2 Chronicles 6:6

    but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

  • 1 Samuel 16:1

    Yahweh 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 among his son...

  • Ruth 4:17-22

    The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Now this is the history of the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezr...

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