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Psalm 78

Psa. 78:72 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So he fed
ra`ah (Hebrew #7462)
to tend a flock; i.e. pasture it; intransitively, to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension, to associate with (as a friend)
KJV usage: X break, companion, keep company with, devour, eat up, evil entreat, feed, use as a friend, make friendship with, herdman, keep (sheep)(-er), pastor, + shearing house, shepherd, wander, waste.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
them according to the integrity
tom (Hebrew #8537)
completeness; figuratively, prosperity; usually (morally) innocence
KJV usage: full, integrity, perfect(-ion), simplicity, upright(-ly, -ness), at a venture. See 8550.
Pronounce: tome
Origin: from 8552
p of his heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
; and guided
nachah (Hebrew #5148)
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
KJV usage: bestow, bring, govern, guide, lead (forth), put, straiten.
Pronounce: naw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
them by the skilfulness
tabuwn (Hebrew #8394)
or towbunah {to-boo-naw'}; from 995; intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
KJV usage: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
Pronounce: taw-boon'
Origin: and (feminine) tbuwnah {teb-oo-naw'}
of his hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
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Psa. 75:2• 2When I shall reach the set time,{HR}I will judge uprightly. (Psa. 75:2)
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Psa. 101:1‑8• 1A psalm of David.{HR}Of mercy and judgment I will sing;{HR}Unto thee, Jehovah, I will sing praises.
2I will behave myself wisely in an upright way:{HR}When wilt thou come unto me?{HR}I will walk within my house in uprightness of my heart.
3I will set nothing of Belial before mine eyes;{HR}I hate the doing of those that turn aside ;{HR}It shall not cleave to me.
4A perverse heart shall depart from me:{HR}Evil I will not know.
5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour,{HR}Him I will cut off;{HR}The lofty of eyes and proud of heart,{HR}Him will I not suffer.
6Mine eyes [shall be] on the faithful of the land to dwell with me;{HR}He that walketh in an upright way shall serve me.
7He that doeth guile shall not dwell within my house;{HR}He that speaketh falsehoods shall not be established before mine eyes.
8Morning by morning (in the mornings) will I cut off all the wicked of the land,{HR}To destroy from the city of Jehovah all doers of iniquity.
(Psa. 101:1‑8)
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2 Sam. 8:15• 15And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people. (2 Sam. 8:15)
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1 Kings 9:4• 4And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances; (1 Kings 9:4)
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1 Kings 15:5• 5because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Urijah the Hittite. (1 Kings 15:5)
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Isa. 11:2‑4• 2and the spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah;
3and his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4but with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked [one].
(Isa. 11:2‑4)
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Acts 13:22,36• 22And having removed him, he raised up for them David as king, to whom also bearing witness, he said, I found David, son of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who shall do all my will.
36For David, having in his own generation served the counsel of God fell asleep, and was added to his fathers, and saw corruption.
(Acts 13:22,36)
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1 Kings 3:6‑9,28• 6And Solomon said, Thou hast shown unto thy servant David my father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great loving-kindness, that thou hast given him a son who sits upon his throne, as it is this day.
7And now, Jehovah my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not to go out and to come in.
8And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
9Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart, to judge thy people, to discern between good and bad; for who is able to judge this thy numerous people?
28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
(1 Kings 3:6‑9,28)
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Zech. 11:15‑17• 15And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
16For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still. shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
17Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
(Zech. 11:15‑17)
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2 Cor. 3:5‑6• 5not that we are competent from ourselves to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our competency [is] of God,
6who also made us competent [as] servants of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit, for the letter killeth but the spirit quickeneth.
(2 Cor. 3:5‑6)
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2 Tim. 2:15• 15Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, cutting straightly the word of truth. (2 Tim. 2:15)
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James 1:5• 5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all freely and reproacheth not; and it shall be given him. (James 1:5)
 Thus the people are at last brought into blessing on the ground of grace, according to the integrity of God’s heart and the skillfulness of His hands. God’s way in the sanctuary is thus made plain by His ways in the world (cf. Psa. 77:13,19). (Psalm 78 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

W. Kelly Translation

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And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart,{HR}And in the skill of his hands he led them.