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2The LORD loveth{H8802)} the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
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For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. …
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: …
But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Some make the first words of the psalm to be part of the title; it is a psalm or song whose subject is the holy mountains—the temple built in Zion upon Mount Moriah. This is the foundation of the argument, or beginning of the psalm. Or we may suppose the psalmist had now the tabernacle or temple in view and was contemplating the glories of it, and at length he breaks out into this expression, whic…
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