Psalm 60:6
New International Version
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.

New Living Translation
God has promised this by his holiness: “I will divide up Shechem with joy. I will measure out the valley of Succoth.

English Standard Version
God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

Berean Standard Bible
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

King James Bible
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

New King James Version
God has spoken in His holiness: “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

New American Standard Bible
God has spoken in His holiness: “I will triumph, I will divide up Shechem, and measure out the Valley of Succoth.

NASB 1995
God has spoken in His holiness: “I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

NASB 1977
God has spoken in His holiness: “I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Legacy Standard Bible
God has spoken in His holiness: “I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Amplified Bible
God has spoken in His holiness [in His promises]: “I will rejoice, I will divide [the land of] Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth [west to east].

Christian Standard Bible
God has spoken in his sanctuary: “I will celebrate! I will divide up Shechem. I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God has spoken in His sanctuary:” I will triumph! I will divide up Shechem. I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

American Standard Version
God hath spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God has spoken in his Holiness: "I shall be strong; I shall divide Shechem and I shall measure the valley of Succoth.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents.

Contemporary English Version
Our God, you solemnly promised, "I would gladly divide up the city of Shechem and give away Succoth Valley piece by piece.

Douay-Rheims Bible
God hath spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Sichem; and will mete out the vale of tabernacles.

English Revised Version
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will exult: I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God has promised the following through his holiness: "I will triumph! I will divide Shechem. I will measure the valley of Succoth.

Good News Translation
From his sanctuary God has said, "In triumph I will divide Shechem and distribute Sukkoth Valley to my people.

International Standard Version
Then God spoke in his holiness, "I will rejoice— I will divide Shechem; I will portion out the Succoth Valley.

JPS Tanakh 1917
God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; That I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Literal Standard Version
God has spoken in His holiness: I exult—I apportion Shechem, | And I measure the Valley of Succoth,

Majority Standard Bible
God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.

New American Bible
In the sanctuary God promised: “I will exult, will apportion Shechem; the valley of Succoth I will measure out.

NET Bible
God has spoken in his sanctuary: "I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem; the Valley of Succoth I will measure off.

New Revised Standard Version
God has promised in his sanctuary: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

New Heart English Bible
God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the Valley of Succoth.

Webster's Bible Translation
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

World English Bible
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Young's Literal Translation
God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult -- I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Victory Through God
5Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered. 6God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth. 7Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is My helmet, Judah is My scepter.…

Cross References
Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Genesis 33:17
but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.

Genesis 33:18
After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).

Joshua 17:7
Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

Psalm 89:35
Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness--I will not lie to David--


Treasury of Scripture

God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

God

Psalm 89:19,35
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people…

Psalm 108:7-13
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth…

Psalm 132:11
The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.

rejoice

Psalm 56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Psalm 119:162
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

2 Samuel 7:18-20
Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? …

divide

Joshua 1:6
Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

2 Samuel 2:8,9
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; …

2 Samuel 5:1-3
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh…

Shechem

Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Sichem

Joshua 20:7
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

Joshua 24:1,32
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God…

valley

Joshua 13:27
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.

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Psalm 60
1. David, complaining to God of former judgment
4. now upon better hope, prays for deliverance
6. Comforting himself in God's promises, he craves that help whereon he trusts














(6) In his holiness . . .--The LXX. and Vulg. have "in his sanctuary" which suits the utterance of an oracle.

I will rejoice . . .--Rather, I will raise a shout of triumph.

I will divide Shechem . . .--Rather, I may divide, &c, implying unquestioned right of ownership. Shechem and Succoth appear to be named as a rude indication of the whole breadth of the country, from west to east. The fact that Dr. Robinson and Vandervelde have identified one Succoth on the right bank of Jordan, does not at all weaken the evidence for the existence of another on the east of that river. See Genesis 33:17; Judges 8:5 seq.; Joshua 13:17 (where ?mek is used for valley, as here).

Verses 6-8. - Appeal is next made in God's promises. Some suppose that a Divine oracle had been recently given to David himself, and that he here records the words of it. But, in that case, it is difficult to account for the despondent tone of vers. 1-4. Hengstenberg's explanation seems preferable, that David now encourages himself by a "reference to the general aspect of the assurances given in the Pentateuch in regard to the possession of the land of Canaan in its widest extent, and to victory over hostile neighbours," and that he has his eye especially on the blessing of Jacob (Genesis 49) and the blessing of Moses (Deuteronomy 33). If these assurances are to be depended on, Israel cannot now be about to succumb to Edom. Verse 6. - God hath spoken in his holiness; or, promised by his holiness (comp. Psalm 89:35). As God is holy, he cannot falsify his promises. I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth; i.e. I will distribute Canaan among my people - both the western region, of which Shechem was the chief town (1 Kings 12:25), and the eastern, which contained "the valley of Succoth" (Genesis 33:17). God, having assigned the whole laud to his people (Genesis 13:14, 15), "meted it out" through Joshua, his servant, and gave to each tribe its inheritance.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
God
אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has spoken
דִּבֶּ֥ר (dib·ber)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

from His sanctuary:
בְּקָדְשׁ֗וֹ (bə·qā·ḏə·šōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6944: A sacred place, thing, sanctity

“I will triumph!
אֶ֫עְלֹ֥זָה (’e‘·lō·zāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 5937: To jump for, joy, exult

I will parcel out
אֲחַלְּקָ֥ה (’ă·ḥal·lə·qāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

Shechem
שְׁכֶ֑ם (šə·ḵem)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7927: Shechem -- 'ridge', a district in Northern Palestine, also a son of Hamor

and apportion
אֲמַדֵּֽד׃ (’ă·mad·dêḏ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative if contextual - first person common singular
Strong's 4058: To stretch, to measure, to be extended

the Valley
וְעֵ֖מֶק (wə·‘ê·meq)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6010: A vale

of Succoth.
סֻכּ֣וֹת (suk·kō·wṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 5523: Succoth -- a city East of the Jordan, also a place in Egypt


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