Psalms 87:2

WEB

²The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

KJV

²The LORD^[+] loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

BSB

²^[+] The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

FBV

²Jerusalem is the city that the Lord loves more than any other city in Israel.

Extra References

Psalms 132:13-14

¹³For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

⁶⁷Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, ⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. ⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Deuteronomy 12:5

⁵But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

2 Chronicles 6:6

⁶but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

Isaiah 14:32

³²What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

Joel 2:32

³²It will happen that whoever will call on the LORD’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the remnant, those whom the LORD calls.