Tehillim 78:54

54 And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.

Tehillim 78:54 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:54

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary
Of the land of Canaan, which the Lord had sanctified, and set apart for them; and of Jerusalem, the holy city, the city of the great God, and of the temple where his residence was to be; so the Targum,

``to the border of the place of the house of his sanctuary:''

even to this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
the mount Moriah, on which the temple was built; this psalm being composed, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi think, after it was made known to David, by the prophet Gad, the place where the temple should be built; namely, on the very mountain, on part of which David had his palace; and this was obtained and possessed, not by the power nor through the merits of the Israelites, but through the power and goodness of God; see ( Psalms 44:3 ) .

Tehillim 78:54 In-Context

52 But made His own people to go forth like tzon, and guided them in the midbar like an eder (flock).

53 And He led them in safety, so that they had no terror; but the yam overwhelmed their oyevim.

54 And He brought them to His gevul kadosh (His holy border), even to this Har, which His Yamin had purchased.

55 He cast out the Goyim also before them, and divided by measure a nachalah for them, and made the Shivtei Yisroel to dwell in their ohalim.

56 Yet they tested and provoked Elohim Elyon, and were not shomer over His edot;