Psalms 87:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

Psalms 87:6 —

Old words in this verse

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

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 4:3
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Psalms 69:28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 4-7)

Zion is here compared with other places, and preferred before them; the church of Christ is more glorious and excellent than the nations of the earth. 1. It is owned that other places have their glories (Ps. 87:4): “ I will make mention of Rahab ” (that is, Egypt) “and Babylon, to those that know me and are about me, and with whom I discourse about public affairs; behold Philistia and Tyre, with E…

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

(vv. 6)

6. The same idea is set forth under the figure of a register made by God (compare Is 4:3).