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Because of Your temple at Jerusalem kings will bring You gifts.
Psalms 68:29 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you.
  • KJV Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
  • NKJV Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, Kings will bring presents to You.
  • NASB Because of Your temple at Jerusalem Kings will bring gifts to You.
  • NLT The kings of the earth are bringing tribute to your Temple in Jerusalem.

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Quick answer

Because of God's temple in Jerusalem, even foreign kings will bring tribute to him. It anticipates the nations coming to honor the true God.

Overview

David envisions kings bringing gifts to God on account of his dwelling place at Jerusalem, a sign of the nations acknowledging his glory. This expectation of Gentile homage runs throughout Scripture. It finds fulfillment as the gospel draws peoples and rulers to bow before Christ, the true temple and King to whom all tribute is due.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • 1 Kgs 10:10Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was such an abundance of spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
  • 1 Chr 29:3Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
  • Ps 76:11Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
  • Isa 18:7At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
  • Isa 60:16–17You will drink the milk of nations and nurse at the breasts of royalty; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
  • Ps 45:12The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.
  • Isa 60:6–11Caravans of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah, and all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and frankincense and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
  • 1 Kgs 10:24–25The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
  • Ezra 7:13–28I hereby decree that any volunteers among the Israelites in my kingdom, including the priests and Levites, may go up with you to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 72:10–11May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
  • 2 Chr 32:23Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.
  • 1 Chr 22:7–11“My son,” said David to Solomon, “it was in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God,
  • 2 Chr 32:33And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
  • Neh 2:8And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
  • 2 Chr 2:5–6The house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
  • 1 Chr 28:10–21Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”
  • 2 Chr 6:8–9But the LORD said to my father David, ‘Since it was in your heart to build a house for My Name, you have done well to have this in your heart.
  • 1 Chr 17:4–12“Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: You are not the one to build Me a house in which to dwell.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 68:29 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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