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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 47:4
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He chooses for us our inheritance—the pride of Jacob, whom he loves.Selah
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Ya`akov whom he loved. Selah.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
He chose the land we would inherit. We are the children of Jacob, whom he loved. Selah
He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory and excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
He chooses our inheritance for us, The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Hee hath chosen our inheritance for vs: euen the glory of Iaakob whom he loued. Selah.
He chooses our inheritance for us,The pride of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
and he chose for us the land that was the pride of Jacob, his favorite.
He makes peoples subject to us, puts nations under our feet.
He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
He chose our land for us. He chose that wonderful land for Jacob, the one he loved. Selah
He has chosen us for the inheritance, and for the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
He chose for us the land where we live, the proud possession of his people, whom he loves.
He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
He chooses our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.
He choseth vs for an heretage, the beutie of Iacob whom he loued.
He chooseth our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah
He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)
He subdueth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
He shall chuse our inheritance for vs, the excellencie of Iacob whom hee loued. Selah.
He hath chosen for vs our inheritaunce: the glorie of Iacob who he loued. Selah.
He has chosen out his inheritance for us, the beauty of Jacob which he loved. Pause.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah
He chees his eritage to vs; the fairnesse of Jacob, whom he louyde.
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves.Selah
He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob's descendants, whom he loves. Interlude
He chooses for us what is to be ours, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves.
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
He chooseth for us our inheritance, The excellence of Jacob, which he hath loved. Selah.
(46-5) He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath love.
He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. [Selah]
He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
Contextual Overview
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
Then a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live; it was a hard famine. As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, "Look. We both know that you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you they're going to say, ‘Aha! That's his wife!' and kill me. But they'll let you live. Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."
God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."
The famine got worse. When they had eaten all the food they had brought back from Egypt, their father said, "Go back and get some more food."
Then Israel entered Egypt, Jacob immigrated to the Land of Ham. God gave his people lots of babies; soon their numbers alarmed their foes. He turned the Egyptians against his people; they abused and cheated God's servants. Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he also chose. They worked marvels in that spiritual wasteland, miracles in the Land of Ham. He spoke, "Darkness!" and it turned dark— they couldn't see what they were doing. He turned all their water to blood so that all their fish died; He made frogs swarm through the land, even into the king's bedroom; He gave the word and flies swarmed, gnats filled the air. He substituted hail for rain, he stabbed their land with lightning; He wasted their vines and fig trees, smashed their groves of trees to splinters; With a word he brought in locusts, millions of locusts, armies of locusts; They consumed every blade of grass in the country and picked the ground clean of produce; He struck down every firstborn in the land, the first fruits of their virile powers. He led Israel out, their arms filled with loot, and not one among his tribes even stumbled. Egypt was glad to have them go— they were scared to death of them. God spread a cloud to keep them cool through the day and a fire to light their way through the night; They prayed and he brought quail, filled them with the bread of heaven; He opened the rock and water poured out; it flowed like a river through that desert— All because he remembered his Covenant, his promise to Abraham, his servant.
Again, the Master, God , says, "Early on, my people went to Egypt and lived, strangers in the land. At the other end, Assyria oppressed them. And now, what have I here?" God 's Decree. "My people are hauled off again for no reason at all. Tyrants on the warpath, whooping it up, and day after day, incessantly, my reputation blackened. Now it's time that my people know who I am, what I'm made of—yes, that I have something to say. Here I am!"
"Later a famine descended on that entire region, stretching from Egypt to Canaan, bringing terrific hardship. Our hungry fathers looked high and low for food, but the cupboard was bare. Jacob heard there was food in Egypt and sent our fathers to scout it out. Having confirmed the report, they went back to Egypt a second time to get food. On that visit, Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers and introduced the Jacob family to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and everyone else in the family, seventy-five in all. That's how the Jacob family got to Egypt. "Jacob died, and our fathers after him. They were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb for which Abraham paid a good price to the sons of Hamor. "When the four hundred years were nearly up, the time God promised Abraham for deliverance, the population of our people in Egypt had become very large. And there was now a king over Egypt who had never heard of Joseph. He exploited our race mercilessly. He went so far as forcing us to abandon our newborn infants, exposing them to the elements to die a cruel death. "In just such a time Moses was born, a most beautiful baby. He was hidden at home for three months. When he could be hidden no longer, he was put outside—and immediately rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, who mothered him as her own son. Moses was educated in the best schools in Egypt. He was equally impressive as a thinker and an athlete. "When he was forty years old, he wondered how everything was going with his Hebrew kin and went out to look things over. He saw an Egyptian abusing one of them and stepped in, avenging his underdog brother by knocking the Egyptian flat. He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way. The next day two of them were fighting and he tried to break it up, told them to shake hands and get along with each other: ‘Friends, you are brothers, why are you beating up on each other?' "The one who had started the fight said, ‘Who put you in charge of us? Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?' When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him. "Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush. Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God's voice: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away. "God said, ‘Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground. I've seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I've heard their groans. I've come to help them. So get yourself ready; I'm sending you back to Egypt.' "This is the same Moses whom they earlier rejected, saying, ‘Who put you in charge of us?' This is the Moses that God, using the angel flaming in the burning bush, sent back as ruler and redeemer. He led them out of their slavery. He did wonderful things, setting up God-signs all through Egypt, down at the Red Sea, and out in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to his congregation, ‘God will raise up a prophet just like me from your descendants.' This is the Moses who stood between the angel speaking at Sinai and your fathers assembled in the wilderness and took the life-giving words given to him and handed them over to us, words our fathers would have nothing to do with. "They craved the old Egyptian ways, whining to Aaron, ‘Make us gods we can see and follow. This Moses who got us out here miles from nowhere—who knows what's happened to him!' That was the time when they made a calf-idol, brought sacrifices to it, and congratulated each other on the wonderful religious program they had put together. "God wasn't at all pleased; but he let them do it their way, worship every new god that came down the pike—and live with the consequences, consequences described by the prophet Amos: Did you bring me offerings of animals and grains those forty wilderness years, O Israel? Hardly. You were too busy building shrines to war gods, to sex goddesses, Worshiping them with all your might. That's why I put you in exile in Babylon. "And all this time our ancestors had a tent shrine for true worship, made to the exact specifications God provided Moses. They had it with them as they followed Joshua, when God cleared the land of pagans, and still had it right down to the time of David. David asked God for a permanent place for worship. But Solomon built it. "Yet that doesn't mean that Most High God lives in a building made by carpenters and masons. The prophet Isaiah put it well when he wrote, "Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So what kind of house will you build me?" says God. "Where I can get away and relax? It's already built, and I built it." "And you continue, so bullheaded! Calluses on your hearts, flaps on your ears! Deliberately ignoring the Holy Spirit, you're just like your ancestors. Was there ever a prophet who didn't get the same treatment? Your ancestors killed anyone who dared talk about the coming of the Just One. And you've kept up the family tradition—traitors and murderers, all of you. You had God's Law handed to you by angels—gift-wrapped!—and you squandered it!" At that point they went wild, a rioting mob of catcalls and whistles and invective. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, hardly noticed—he only had eyes for God, whom he saw in all his glory with Jesus standing at his side. He said, "Oh! I see heaven wide open and the Son of Man standing at God's side!" Yelling and hissing, the mob drowned him out. Now in full stampede, they dragged him out of town and pelted him with rocks. The ringleaders took off their coats and asked a young man named Saul to watch them. As the rocks rained down, Stephen prayed, "Master Jesus, take my life." Then he knelt down, praying loud enough for everyone to hear, "Master, don't blame them for this sin"—his last words. Then he died.
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 âthisâ 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, âthe pride - ×××× gaÌ'oÌn - of Jacob.â Septuagint, âbeautyâ - καλλονηÌν kalloneÌn. So the Vulgate, âspeciem.â 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 âJacobâ rather than to Abraham and Isaac, because the land came actually into the possession of the Hebrew people in the time of Jacobâs 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.
