Psalm 122:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.

Whither

The testimony

Exodus 16:34

Exodus 26:33

Exodus 32:15

To give

General references

Psalm 116:19

Ezekiel 46:10

Bible References

Whither

but chose the tribe of Judah, {Mount Zion} that he loved.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.

Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.

Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel,

{But only} to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all [of] your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.

Three times in the year all [of] your males shall appear {before } Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear {before Yahweh} empty-handed.

The testimony

As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping.

And you will put the curtain under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the curtain, and the curtain will separate for you between the holy and the {most holy place}.

And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony [were] in his hand, tablets written on their two sides; {on the front and on the back} they were written.

To give

I will come into your house with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows

Give thanks to Yahweh, for [he is] good, for his loyal love [is] forever.

I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim the name of Yahweh.

Open to me [the] gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them [and] give thanks to Yah.

General references

in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

And the prince [will be] in the midst of them; he will come in when they come in, and when they go out he will go out.