Psalms 68:27

Coverdale Bible (1535)

There litle Beniamin, the prynces of Iuda, the prynces of Zabulo, and the prynces of Nephthali beare rule amoge them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּֽ֭מַקְהֵלוֹת בָּרְכ֣וּ אֱלֹהִ֑ים יְ֝הוָ֗ה מִמְּק֥וֹר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

bə-maqhēlôt bārkû ʾĕlōhîm YHWH from-məqôr yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *bə-maqhēlôt*: preposition בְּ (in) + feminine plural noun - 'in assemblies'
• *bārkû*: Piel imperative masculine plural - 'bless'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with singular meaning - 'God'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'LORD'
• from-*məqôr*: preposition מִן (from) + masculine singular construct noun - 'from the fountain of'
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - 'Israel'

Word Meanings

• *maqhēlôt*: assemblies/congregations/choirs
• *məqôr*: fountain/source/spring

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:21 : 21 Saul answered: Am not I a sonne of Iemini, and of the smallest trybe, and my kynred the leest amonge all the kynreds of ye trybe of BenIamin? Why speakest thou so the vnto me?
• 1 Chr 12:16 : 16 There came of the children of BenIamin also and of Iuda vnto the castell of Dauid.
• 1 Chr 12:29 : 29 Of the children of BenIamin Sauls brother, thre thousande: for vnto that time helde many of the yet with the house of Saul.
• 1 Chr 15:3 : 3 Therfore gathered Dauid all Israel together vnto Ierusalem, to brynge vp the Arke of the LORDE vnto the place which he had prepared for it.
• 1 Chr 27:12 : 12 The nyenth in the nyenth moneth, was Abieser the Anthothite of the childre of Iemini, & vnder his course were foure and twetye thousande.
• Ps 47:9 : 9 The prynces of the people are gathered together vnto the God of Abraham: for God is farre farre hyer exalted, then the mightie lordes of the earth.
• Ps 60:7 : 7 Galaad is myne, Manasses is myne, Ephraim is the strength of my heade, Iuda is my captayne.
• Isa 11:13 : 13 The hatred of Ephraim, and ye enmyte of Iuda shalbe clene rooted out. Ephraim shal beare no euel wil to Iuda, and Iuda shal not hate Ephraim:
• Ezek 37:19-27 : 19 Then geue them this answere: Thus saieth the LORDE God: Beholde, I wil take the stocke of Ioseph, which is in the honde of Ephraim and of the trybes of Israel his felowes, and wil put them to the stocke of Iuda, & make them one stocke, and they shalbe one in my honde. 20 And the two stickes where vpon thou wrytest, shalt thou haue in thine honde, that they maye se, 21 and shalt saye vnto them: Thus saieth the LORDE God: beholde I wil take awaye the childre of Israel from amonge the Heithen, vnto whom they be gone, and wil gather them together on euery syde, and bringe them agayne in to their owne londe: 22 yee I wil make one people of the in ye londe, vpon the mountaynes of Israel, and they all shal haue but one kinge. They shall nomore be two peoples from hensforth, nether be deuyded in to two kingdomes: 23 they shal also defyle the selues nomore with their abhominacions, Idols and all their wickeddoinges. I wil helpe the out of all their dwellinge places, wherin they haue synned: & will so clense them, that they shalbe my people, and I their God. 24 Dauid my seruaunt shalbe their kinge, & they all shal haue one shepherde only. They shal walke in my lawes, and my commaundementes shalt they both kepe & fulfill. 25 They shal dwell in the londe, that I gaue vnto Iacob my seruaunt, where as youre fathers also haue dwelt. Yee eue in the same londe shal they, their children, & their childers children dwell for euermore: and my seruaunt Dauid shal be their euerlastynge prynce. 26 Morouer, I will make a bonde of peace with them, which shal be vnto them an euerlastinge couenaunt. I wil sattle the also, and multiplie them, my Sanctuary wil I set amonge the for euermore. 27 My dwellinge shalbe wt them, yee I wil be their God, & they shalbe my people.
• Gen 42:32 : 32 but are twolue brethren the sonnes of oure father: one is awaye, and the yongest is yet this daye wt oure father in the lande of Canaan,
• Judg 5:18 : 18 But Zabulons people ioperde their life vnto death: Nephtali also in the toppe of ye felde of Merom.
• Judg 20:35 : 35 Thus the LORDE smote BenIamin before the children of Israel, so that the same daye the children of Israel destroyed fyue & twentye thousande and an hundreth men in Ben Iamin, which all drue the swerde.
• Judg 21:6-9 : 6 And the children of Israel were sory for BenIamin their brother, and sayde: This daye is there one trybe lesse in Israel. 7 How wyll we do that the remnaunt maye haue wyues? For we haue sworne by the LORDE, that we wyl not geue the wyues of oure doughters. 8 And they saide: Where is there eny ma of the trybes of Israel, that is not come vp to the LORDE vnto Mispa? 9 And beholde, there was not one man of the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead. 10 Then sent the congregacion twolue thousande men of armes thither, and commaunded them, and sayde: Go youre waye, and smite the citesyns of Iabes in Gilead with the swerde, the wemen also and the children, 11 but so that ye do after this maner: Se that ye damne all them that are males, and all the wemen that haue lyen with men. 12 And amonge the citesins of Iabes in Gilead they foude foure hundreth damsels, which were virgins, and had lyen with noman: those they broughte in to the hoost vnto Silo, which lyeth in the londe of Canaan. 13 Then sent the whole congregacion, and caused to talke with the children of BenIamin, which were in the stonie rocke of Rimo and called vnto them frendly. 14 So the children of BenIamin came agayne at the same tyme, and thy gaue them wemen which they had of the wemen of Iabes in Gilead, and founde no mo after that maner. 15 Then were the people sory for BenIamin, that ye LORDE had made a gappe in the trybes of Israel. 16 And the Elders of the congregacio sayde: What wil we do, that the remnaunt maye haue wyues also? for the weme in Ben Iamin are destroied, 17 and they sayde: The enheritaunce of them of BenIamin that are escaped, must nedes remayne, that there be not a trybe destroyed out of Israel: 18 & we cannot geue them oure doughters to wiues. For the children of Israel haue sworne and sayde: Cursed be he that geueth a wyfe to the BenIamites. 19 And they sayde: Beholde there is a yearly feast of the LORDE at Silo, which lieth on the northsyde of the Gods house, and on the eastside of the strete as a ma goeth from Bethel vnto Sichem, and lieth on the south side of Libona. 20 And they commaunded the children of BenIamin, & sayde: Go youre waye, and wayte in the vynyardes. 21 And whan ye se that the doughters of Silo go forth by copanyes to daunse, get you out of the vynyardes, and euery man take him a wyfe of the doughters of Silo, and go youre waye in to the lode of BenIamin. 22 As for their fathers and brethren, whan they come to lawe with vs, we wyll saye vnto them: Be fauourable to them, for they haue not taken the in battaill: but ye gaue the not vnto them by time, and it is youre faute. 23 The children of BenIamin did so, and acordinge to their nombre toke them wyues from the daunse, whom they caught by violence, and wente their waye, & dwelt in their awne inheritaunce, and buylded cities and dwelt therin. 24 The children of Israel also gat them vp from thence at the same time, euery one to his trybe and to his kinred, and departed thece, euery man to his awne inheritaunce. 25 At yt time was there no kynge in Israel, and euery man dyd ye thinge yt was right in his awne eies.