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2The LORD loveth{H8802)} the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalms 87:2

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Matthew Henry

(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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