Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Parallel translations
- KJV The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- BSB The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- NKJV The Lord loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- NASB The Lord loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
- NLT He loves the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in Israel.
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Deut 12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
- Ps 78:67–69Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
- 2 Chr 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’
- Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
- Joel 2:32It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
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