◄ Psalm 78:68 {77:68} ►
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Good News Translation
Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.

New Revised Standard Version
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.

Contemporary English Version
Instead he chose the tribe of Judah, and he chose Mount Zion, the place he loves.

New American Bible
God chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

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Genesis 49:8-10 Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. . . .

Ruth 4:17-22 And the women, her neighbours, congratulating with her, and saying, There is a son born to Noemi, called his name Obed: he is the father of Isai, the father of David. . . .

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said to Samuel: How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, whom I have rejected from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and come, that I may send thee to Isai, the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

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Psalm 87:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Psalm 132:12-14 If thy children will keep my covenant, and these my testimonies which I shall teach them: Their children also for evermore shall sit upon thy throne. . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
…67And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 68But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Numbers 1:26
Of the sons of Juda, by their generations and families and houses of their kindreds, by the names of every one from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war,

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Psalm 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Psalm 114:2
Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psalm 132:13
For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.

Psalm 133:3
As the dew of Hermon, which descendeth upon mount Sion. For there the Lord hath commanded blessing, and life for evermore.

Psalm 78:67
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