Psalm 78:69 {77:69}
Good News Translation
There he built his Temple like his home in heaven; he made it firm like the earth itself, secure for all time.

New Revised Standard Version
He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.

Contemporary English Version
There he built his temple as lofty as the mountains and as solid as the earth he made to last forever.

New American Bible
He built his shrine like the heavens, like the earth which he founded forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

and he

1 Kings 6:2 And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

1 Kings 9:8 And this house shall be made an example of: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

2 Chronicles 3:4 And the porch in the front, which was extended in length according to the measure of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits: and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

high

1 Chronicles 29:1,19 And king David said to all the assembly: Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is as yet young and tender: and the work is great, for a house is prepared not for man, but for God. . . .

2 Chronicles 2:9 To provide me timber in abundance. For the house which I desire to build, is to be exceeding great, and glorious.

earth

Psalm 102:25 In the beginning, O Lord, thou foundedst the earth: and the heavens are the works of thy hands.

Psalm 104:5 Who hast founded the earth upon its own bases: it shall not be moved for ever and ever.

Psalm 119:90,91 Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth. . . .

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the needy from the dust, and lifteth up the poor from the dunghill: that he may sit with princes, and hold the throne of glory. For the poles of the earth are the Lord's, and upon them he hath set the world.

Job 26:7 He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Isaiah 48:13 My hand also hath founded the earth, and my right hand hath measured the heavens: I shall call them, and they shall stand together.

Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to heaven, and look down to the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish like smoke, and the earth shall be worn away like a garment, and the inhabitants thereof shall perish in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice shall not fail.

Colossians 1:16,17 For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him. . . .

Revelation 20:11 And I saw a great white throne and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away: and there was no place found for them

established.

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
68But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. 69And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.70And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,…
Cross References
Exodus 15:17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

1 Kings 6:1
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord.

Psalm 87:1
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

Psalm 114:2
Judea was made his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.

Psalm 127:1
A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Jeremiah 10:12
He that maketh the earth by his power, that prepareth the world by his wisdom, and stretcheth out the heavens by his knowledge.

Ezekiel 36:2
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

Psalm 78:68
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