Psalm 78:61 {77:61}
Good News Translation
He allowed our enemies to capture the Covenant Box, the symbol of his power and glory.

New Revised Standard Version
and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.

Contemporary English Version
He let enemies capture the sacred chest and let them dishonor him.

New American Bible
He gave up his might into captivity, his glorious ark into the hands of the foe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

his strength.

Psalm 132:8 Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.

Judges 18:30 And they set up to themselves the graven idol, and Jonathan the son of Gersam, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests in the tribe of Dan, until the day of their captivity.

1 Samuel 5:1,2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus. . . .

2 Chronicles 6:41 Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, put on salvation, and thy saints rejoice in good things.

glory

Psalm 24:7 Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.

Exodus 40:34 The cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the glory of the Lord filled it.

1 Samuel 4:21,22 And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband: . . .

Context
I Will Open My Mouth in Parables
60And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men. 61And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.62And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 4:17
And he that brought the news answered, and said: Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter of the people: moreover thy two sons, Ophni and Phinees, are dead: and the ark of God is taken.

Psalm 63:2
In a desert land, and where there is no way, and no water: so in the sanctuary have I come before thee, to see thy power and thy glory.

Psalm 132:8
Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified.

Jeremiah 26:6
I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Psalm 78:60
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