King James Version (KJV)

Psalms 78:68

“But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.”

Verse in context — Psalms 78

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

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