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Psalm 78:62

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
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The sword falls on people called God's own inheritance, making the cost of his anger hard to separate from the closeness of belonging.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Exodus 34:9He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and …Exodus asks God to take the people as his inheritance; the psalm names his anger against that inheritance.
1 Samuel 4:2The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of …Both passages recount Israel's people falling in battle, while the psalm names God's anger in their defeat.
Psalm 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.Both passages speak of God's anger directed toward those identified as his own: his inheritance and his anointed.
Isaiah 64:9Don’t be furious, LORD. Don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.Both name the people as God's own while speaking of his anger; Isaiah pleads for that anger to end.
1 Samuel 4:10–11The Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter; for thirty thousand footmen of Israel fell.The psalm's sword and Samuel's account of slaughter share the grim reality of Israel's people dying in war.
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Encouragement

This account names God's anger within Israel's history. It gives no warrant to call every loss his punishment; the people handed over are still described as his inheritance.

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