Psalms 60:7
5 Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.
6 God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.
Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.
8 Moab is My washbasin; upon Edom I toss My sandal; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”
9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.
- KJV
- Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
- WEB
- Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
- ASV
- Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
- DARBY
- Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
- BLB
- Gilead [is] unto Me, and Manasseh [is] unto Me; and Ephraim [is] the helmet for My head; Judah [is] My scepter;
- ÅB
- Meg hører Gilead til, og meg hører Manasse til, og Efra'im er vern for mitt hode, Juda er min herskerstav.
- OTB
- Gilead er min, og Manasse er min;
Efraim er også hjelmen for mitt hode;
Juda er min septer. - B1930
- Mig hører Gilead til, og mig hører Manasse til, og Efra'im er vern for mitt hode, Juda er min herskerstav.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 49:10
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:17
His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Read in contextJoshua 13:31
half of Gilead; and Ashtaroth and Edrei, the royal cities of Og in Bashan. All this was for the clans of the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half of the descendants of Machir.
Read in context1 Chronicles 12:19
Some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (They did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers consulted and sent David away, saying, “It will cost us our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”)
Read in contextJoshua 17:1
Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.
Read in context1 Chronicles 12:37
And from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh there: 120,000 armed with every kind of weapon of war.
Read in contextJoshua 17:5–6
Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan beyond the Jordan,
Read in context1 Samuel 28:2
David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
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