Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure.
New American Standard Bible
Like the earth which He has founded forever.
King James Version
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Holman Bible
like the earth that He established forever.
International Standard Version
He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.
A Conservative Version
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
American Standard Version
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Amplified
And He built His sanctuary [exalted] like the heights [of the heavens],
Like the earth which He has established forever.
Bible in Basic English
And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.
Darby Translation
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will build his holy place as of buffaloes, as the earth he founded it forever.
King James 2000
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he built his sanctuary like [the] heights, like [the] earth that he established forever.
Modern King James verseion
And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever.
NET Bible
He made his sanctuary as enduring as the heavens above; as secure as the earth, which he established permanently.
New Heart English Bible
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
The Emphasized Bible
And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.
Webster
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
World English Bible
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
Youngs Literal Translation
And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 78:69
Verse Info
Context Readings
Lessons From Israel's Past
68 but chose the tribe of Judah, even the hill of Zion which he loved. 69 And there he built his temple on high, and laid the foundation of it like the ground, that it might perpetually endure. 70 He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.
1 Kings 6:1-38
And it came to pass, the four hundred and fourscore year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, and the fourth year of the reign of Solomon upon Israel, and the second month called Ziv, that he began to build the temple unto the LORD.
1 Kings 9:8
And this house which is so high, all that pass by it shall be astonished and shall hiss and say, 'Why hath the LORD dealt on this manner with this land and with this house?'
1 Chronicles 29:1
And David the king said unto all the congregation, "God hath specially chosen Solomon my son which is yet young and tender, and the work is great, for the house is not for man, but for the LORD God.
1 Chronicles 29:19
And give unto Solomon my son, a pure heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies and thine ordinances, and to do all, and to build the house which I intended."
2 Chronicles 2:9
that they may prepare me timber enough. For the house which I build is great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 3:4
And the porch at the end was as large as the house breadth, twenty cubits; and the height was a hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inner side with pure gold.
Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Psalm 102:25
Thou, LORD, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands.
Psalm 104:5
Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time.
Psalm 119:90-91
Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
Isaiah 48:13
My hand is the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spanneth over the heavens. As soon as I called them they were there.
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to heaven and behold the earth beneath. For heaven shall vanish away as smoke, and the earth shall wear away as a vesture, and the inhabiters thereof shall perish away after the same manner: but my salvation shall endure ever, and my righteousness shall not perish.
Colossians 1:16-17
for by him were all things created, things that are in heaven, and things that are in earth: things visible, and things invisible: whether they be majesty or lordship, either rule or power.
Revelation 20:11
And I saw a great white seat and him that sat on it, from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven, and their place was no more found.