Psalm 87:2 {86:2}
Good News Translation
more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.

New Revised Standard Version
the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Contemporary English Version
and he loves that city more than any other place in all of Israel.

New American Bible
Glorious things are said of you, O city of God! Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

The Lord

Psalm 78:67-69 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: . . .

Psalm 132:13,14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:5 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

Isaiah 14:32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope in him.

Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved: for in Mount Sion, and in Jerusalem shall be salvation, as the Lord hath said, and in the residue whom the Lord shall call.

Context
The LORD Loves the Gates of Zion
1For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains: 2The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.3Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.…
Cross References
Revelation 20:9
And there came down fire from God out of heaven and devoured them: and the devil, who seduced them, was cast into the pool of fire and brimstone, where both the beast

Psalm 68:16
Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

Psalm 78:67
And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Psalm 78:68
But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

Psalm 122:2
Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 87:1
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