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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 47:4

He chooseth for us our inheritance, The excellence of Jacob, which he hath loved. Selah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   God Continued...;   The Topic Concordance - Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pride;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Korah, Korahites;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Chosen of god;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Korah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Excellency;   Joy;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 28;   Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for April 14;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He chooses for us our inheritance—the pride of Jacob, whom he loves.Selah
Hebrew Names Version
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Ya`akov whom he loved. Selah.
King James Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
English Standard Version
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
New Century Version
He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah
New English Translation
He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)
Amplified Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory and excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
New American Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah
World English Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs: euen the glory of Iaakob whom he loued. Selah.
Legacy Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us,The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
Berean Standard Bible
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
Contemporary English Version
and he chose for us the land that was the pride of Jacob, his favorite.
Complete Jewish Bible
He makes peoples subject to us, puts nations under our feet.
Darby Translation
He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Easy-to-Read Version
He chose our land for us. He chose that wonderful land for Jacob, the one he loved. Selah
George Lamsa Translation
He has chosen us for the inheritance, and for the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
Good News Translation
He chose for us the land where we live, the proud possession of his people, whom he loves.
Lexham English Bible
He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
Literal Translation
He chooses our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He choseth vs for an heretage, the beutie of Iacob whom he loued.
American Standard Version
He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah
Bible in Basic English
He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He subdueth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
King James Version (1611)
He shall chuse our inheritance for vs, the excellencie of Iacob whom hee loued. Selah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce: the glorie of Iacob who he loued. Selah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.
English Revised Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He chees his eritage to vs; the fairnesse of Jacob, whom he louyde.
Update Bible Version
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Webster's Bible Translation
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
New King James Version
He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves.Selah
New Living Translation
He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob's descendants, whom he loves. Interlude
New Life Bible
He chooses for us what is to be ours, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.
New Revised Standard
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
Douay-Rheims Bible
(46-5) He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath love.
Revised Standard Version
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]
Young's Literal Translation
He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Contextual Overview

1 All ye peoples, clap your hands, Shout unto God, with the voice of triumph; 2 For, Yahweh - as Most High, is to be revered, A great king, over all the earth, 3 He will subjugate, Peoples under us, and, Tribes of men beneath our feet. 4 He chooseth for us our inheritance, The excellence of Jacob, which he hath loved. Selah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

choose: Deuteronomy 11:12, Jeremiah 3:19, Ezekiel 20:6, Matthew 25:34, 1 Corinthians 3:22, 1 Corinthians 3:23, Ephesians 1:18, 1 Peter 1:4

excellency: Psalms 16:3, Isaiah 60:15, Amos 6:8, Amos 8:7, Nahum 2:2

whom: Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Deuteronomy 33:3, Hosea 14:4, Malachi 1:2, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:1 - Bethel Joshua 18:10 - before the Lord Joshua 19:51 - These are Psalms 136:22 - General Ecclesiastes 6:12 - who knoweth

Cross-References

Genesis 12:10
And it came to pass that there was a famine, in the land, - so Abram went down towards Egypt, to sojourn there, because grievous, was the famine in the land.
Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram - Thou must surely know, that, sojourners, will thy seed become in a land not theirs, and shall serve them and they will humble them, four hundred years;
Genesis 43:1
But the famine, was severe in the land.
Genesis 46:34
Then shall ye say - Men of cattle, have thy servants been from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, - To the end ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for an abomination to Egyptians, is every feeder of a flock,
Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt respond and say before Yahweh thy God - A Syrian ready to perish, was my father, so he went down to Egypt, and became a sojourner there with men only few; but he became there a nation great, mighty and numerous;
Psalms 105:23
So Israel came into Egypt, And, Jacob, sojourned in the land of Ham;
Isaiah 52:4
For, thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, To Egypt, went down my people at first to sojourn there, - But, Assyria, without cause, hath oppressed him.
Acts 7:6
But God, spake thus - His seed shall be a sojourner in a foreign land, and they will bring it into bondage, and ill-treat it four-hundred years;
Acts 7:11
And there came a famine upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers could not find pasture.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall choose our inheritance for us,.... Either a portion in this life; God knows what is best for his people, and therefore they should leave it with him, who can make a better choice for them than for themselves: an Heathen c once gave this advice,

"give thyself wholly to the will and disposal of the celestial ones; for they who are used to give good things easily can also choose the fittest.''

Or the heavenly inheritance, so called in allusion to the land of Canaan, subdued and possessed by the Israelites, in which Christ is greatly concerned; his people are predestinated to the adoption of children, that is, to the inheritance they are adopted to by him, in whom they obtain it; through his death they receive the promise of eternal inheritance, he being the testator of that will of their heavenly Father which bequeaths it to them; it is his righteousness which gives them a title to it, and through his grace they have a meetness for it, and he will at last introduce them into it; all which is a reason for joy and gladness in them. The Arabic version renders it, "he hath chosen us an inheritance for himself"; so the Lord's people are, Deuteronomy 32:9. Christ asked them of his father, and he gave them for his inheritance, he having chosen them as such, and greatly delighted he is with them, Psalms 2:8;

the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. The saints, who are, in his esteem, the excellent in the earth, and who will be in the latter day an eternal excellency, Psalms 16:3; even the whole church, consisting of Jews and Gentiles, the spiritual Jacob or Israel of God, whom Christ has loved with an everlasting love, and therefore has chosen them for his portion and peculiar treasure; as Jacob in person was loved when Esau was hated.

Selah; on this word, Psalms 16:3- :.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall choose our inheritance for us - He has chosen or selected the land which we inherit. Of all the countries which compose the world, he has chosen “this” to be the inheritance of his own people, or the place where they should dwell. The thought in this verse is based on the idea so common in the writings of the Hebrews, that their country was the glory of all lands - the place of all on earth most desirable to dwell in. It is in view of this fact that they are here called on to praise God, and to rejoice in him.

The excellency of Jacob - literally, “the pride - גאון gâ'ôn - of Jacob.” Septuagint, “beauty” - καλλονὴν kallonēn. So the Vulgate, “speciem.” The meaning is, that it was a land of which Jacob, the ancestor of the people, might be proud, or which he did boast of. It was ever regarded as an honor among the Jews that they dwelt in a land which had been the abode of the prophets; and especially was anything regarded as of value that could be traced to Jacob; that bad been once in his possession; or that could be regarded as his gift. Compare John 4:12.

Whom he loved - As one of the patriarchs. Perhaps special allusion is here made to “Jacob” rather than to Abraham and Isaac, because the land came actually into the possession of the Hebrew people in the time of Jacob’s sons. It was divided among the descendants of his sons, the twelve tribes, bearing their names; and thus Jacob was most naturally referred to as having been in possession of the land. Abraham and Isaac dwelt in the land as strangers and pilgrims Hebrews 11:9-10, Hebrews 11:13, having no possession there, not even of a burying-place except as they purchased it (compare Genesis 23:12-16); and the land actually came into the possession of the nation only in the family of Jacob.


 
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