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Psalm 48:13

Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

11Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.
12Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.
13Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
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Notice

Zion’s bulwarks and palaces deserve a close look because the next generation will hear about them from people who took time to notice.

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Connect

Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to …Both passages look toward the next generation as people who need to hear an account of God’s strength.
Psalm 122:7Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.Both name the city’s palaces: Psalm 48 asks people to consider them, while Psalm 122 prays for prosperity within them.
Psalm 78:4–6We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.Both make telling the next generation a shared responsibility, preserving an account of what deserves attention and praise.
Deuteronomy 11:19You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.Both connect attention with teaching those who follow, whether through observing Zion or speaking to children throughout the day.
Joel 1:3Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.Both command people to tell those who come after them, with Joel extending that telling through successive generations.
Psalm 102:18This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD,Both preserve an account for a generation yet to come, one through telling and the other through writing.
Amos 9:11In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,The shared imagery is structural: Zion’s bulwarks and palaces stand for inspection, while Amos describes breaches and ruins God will rebuild.
Isaiah 58:12Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, …Both link built places with generations, though Psalm 48 concerns observing and telling, while Isaiah concerns rebuilding and repair.
Acts 15:14–16Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.The link is limited to passing on an account: Psalm 48 directs future telling, while Acts records Simeon’s report.
Haggai 1:5Now therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.Both use the command “Consider,” directing attention to Zion’s palaces in the psalm and to the people’s ways in Haggai.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

Taking time to notice has a purpose beyond your own understanding. Zion’s story is meant to reach people yet to come, bearing witness to the God who guides his people.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).