Bible Strands
Psalms 47:4
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the worshiping community during a celebration of God’s enthronement, positioned between the declaration that God subdues nations beneath His people and the announcement of His ascension with trumpet blasts. The words — יִבְחַר (yiv.char-) means he chooses, and נַחֲלָתֵ֑/נוּ (na.cha.la.Te./nu) means our inheritance, directly stating that God actively selects Jacob as His designated possession. The thread — The motif of Jacob as God’s chosen possession appears in 1 Peter 1:4, which describes an imperishable inheritance reserved in heaven, while Amos 6:8 and Nahum 2:2 frame Jacob’s pride as both an object of divine judgment and a future restoration. Why it lands — The text asserts that God’s sovereign selection, not human achievement, establishes who belongs to Him, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine authority and reject self-justification.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
Cross-references
- 1 Peter 1:4 and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
- Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
- Nahum 2:2 For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and ruined the branches of their vine.
- Hosea 14:4 I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Amos 8:7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- 1 John 4:9 This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
- Deuteronomy 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
- Isaiah 60:15 Whereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
- Jeremiah 3:19 Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
- Ephesians 2:4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,