Psalms 47:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Psalms 47:4 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 1:4
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Amos 6:8
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Nahum 2:2
For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Amos 8:7
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Hosea 14:4
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

The psalmist, having his own heart filled with great and good thoughts of God, endeavours to engage all about him in the blessed work of praise, as one convinced that God is worthy of all blessing and praise, and as one grieved at his own and others’ backwardness to and barrenness in this work. Observe, in these verses, I. Who are called upon to praise God: “ All you people, all you people of Isra…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. He shall ... inheritance--the heathen to be possessed by His Church (Psa 2:8), as Canaan by the Jews. excellency of Jacob--literally, “pride,” or, that in which he glories (not necessarily, though often, in a bad sense), the privileges of the chosen people-- whom he loved--His love being the sole cause of granting them.