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他 为 我 们 选 择 产 业 ， 就 是 他 所 爱 之 雅 各 的 荣 耀 。 （ 细 拉 ）
Contextual Overview
For the director of music. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with joy. 2 The Lord Most High is wonderful. He is the great King over all the earth! 3 He defeated nations for us and put them under our control. 4 He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved. SelahBible 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
At this time there was not much food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because there was so little food.
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
Still no food grew in the land of Canaan.
This is what you should tell him: ‘We, your servants, have taken care of farm animals all our lives. Our ancestors did the same thing.' Then the king will allow you to settle in the land of Goshen, away from the Egyptians, because they don't like to be near shepherds."
Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: "My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.
Then his father Israel came to Egypt; Jacob lived in Egypt.
This is what the Lord God says: "First my people went down to Egypt to live. Later Assyria made them slaves.
This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will be strangers in a land they don't own. The people there will make them slaves and will mistreat them for four hundred years.
"Then all the land of Egypt and Canaan became so dry that nothing would grow, and the people suffered very much. Jacob's sons, our ancestors, could not find anything to eat.
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- :.
c Socrates apud Valer. Maxim. l. 7. c. 2. extern. 1.
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.
