Text: Psalm 78:68-69
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 15:17
Subject: God's mountain sanctuary and Zion's temple
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Exodus 15:17 envisions God planting Israel on "the mountain of Your inheritance" and establishing "the sanctuary" (מִקְּדָשׁ, miqdash) that "Your hands have established," and Psalm 78:68-69 identifies this as realized in the election of Mount Zion and the building of Solomon's temple: "He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved. He built His sanctuary like the heights." The psalm traces the trajectory from the Song of the Sea's anticipation to historical fulfillment, connecting the exodus promise of divine dwelling with the Davidic-Solomonic temple. The temple "built like the heights" (כְּמוֹ רָמִים, kemo ramim) echoes the mountain imagery of Exodus 15:17, showing how Israel's poets understood the Jerusalem sanctuary as the realization of what Moses foresaw at the Red Sea.