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Psalms 76:2

Psalms 76:2

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

In Salem also is his tabernacle,.... That is, in Jerusalem, as the Targum expresses it, where the tabernacle of Moses and the ark of the covenant were, and afterwards the temple of Solomon, which the Targum here calls the house of the sanctuary; and may be interpreted of the human nature of Christ, the true tabernacle which God pitched, and not man, in which the divine word when he was made flesh dwelt or tabernacled among the Jews at Jerusalem, and in other parts of Judea, .

Salem or Jerusalem often signifies the church of God in Gospel times, in the midst of which Christ resides, and where he grants his gracious presence, and in the New Jerusalem the tabernacle of God will be with men, and he will dwell among them, Re 21:2.

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