Psalms 87:2

"The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that God takes particular delight in the community and worship at Jerusalem, seeing it as a place where His people gather to serve Him. It emphasizes the importance of communal worship over individual dwellings, highlighting the spiritual significance of the city's gates as centers of devotion.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The Lord loveth the gates of Zion -ComparePsalms 78:68. The gates of a city were the places of concourse; where business was transacted; where courts were held. The particular allusion here seems to be to the thronging multitudes pressing into the city for public worship - the numbers that gathered together at the great feasts and festivals of the nation; and the meaning is, that he looked with more pleasure on such multitudes as they thronged the gates, pressing in that they might worship him, than on any other scene in the land. More than all the dwellings of Jacob -Than any of the places where the descendants of Jacob, or where his people dwell.

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