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Psalm 76:2
His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.
1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
2His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion.
3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game.
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Salem and Zion give God's dwelling a named place, grounding the thought of his presence in the life of a particular people.
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Genesis 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.Salem is named as God's dwelling in the psalm and as the city whose king serves God Most High.
Isaiah 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”Both passages locate God's presence in Zion, where Isaiah tells the inhabitants to shout because the Holy One is great among them.
Psalm 132:14“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.Both passages speak of God's dwelling place, with Psalm 132 adding his desire to live there forever.
Psalm 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.Both psalms name Zion as God's dwelling, and Psalm 9 links that presence with praise and declaring his deeds.
Hebrews 7:1For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,Both passages name Salem: one locates God's tabernacle there, while the other identifies Melchizedek as its king and God's priest.
Leviticus 26:11I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.God's tabernacle in Salem shares the language of dwelling with his promise to set his tent among his people.
Psalm 65:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. Vows shall be performed to you.Zion is the shared place: God's dwelling is there in Psalm 76, and praise and vows await him there in Psalm 65.
Psalm 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.Both passages identify Zion as God's habitation, with Psalm 132 naming his choice and desire for it.
2 Chronicles 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’The psalm names God's dwelling in Zion, while Chronicles records his choice of Jerusalem as the place for his name.
Exodus 20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place …Both texts associate God's presence with a place, whether his dwelling in Zion or an altar where he records his name.
Ezra 7:15and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,Both passages speak of God's habitation in the same city, called Zion in the psalm and Jerusalem in Ezra.
Lamentations 2:6He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to …Both name God's tabernacle and Zion; Lamentations describes the terrible destruction of his place of assembly in his anger.
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The God whose name is great in Israel has his dwelling in Zion. His greatness and his presence among his people belong together in this song.
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