Text: Psalm 78:68
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 15:17
Subject: mountain and sanctuary in poetic retrospective
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Exodus 15:17 anticipates God establishing His sanctuary on the mountain of His inheritance, and Psalm 78:68 identifies Mount Zion as this chosen mountain: "He chose... Mount Zion, which He loved" (הַר צִיּוֹן אֲשֶׁר אָהֵב, har tsiyon asher ahev). The psalm traces a line from exodus anticipation to Davidic election, interpreting the Song of the Sea's mountain-sanctuary vision as fulfilled when God chose Zion over Shiloh (Ps 78:60, 67). This poetic retrospective reveals that Israel's psalmists understood the Zion tradition as rooted in the earliest post-exodus expectation of a divine dwelling place.