Psalms 68:15-16

The hill of God is, &c.— Is the hill of Bashan, is the craggy hill of Bashan, the hill of God? Psalms 68:16. Why look you with envy, ye craggy hills? THIS IS the mountain God hath desired to dwell in: yea, the Lord will dwell there for ever. Reading the words thus, with an interrogation, they appear suitable to the occasion, and worthy of the genuine spirit of poetry. "Bashan may boast of its proud eminences, its craggy summits, but is this the hill where God will fix his residence?" He poetically introduces Bashan and the other little hills as looking with envy on mount Sion, that she, above all the other mountains, should be favoured with the residence of the eternal God, and become the fixed seat of his ark. He tacitly bids them cease their envy, and, by pointing to mount Sion, tells them, This is the hill in which God desireth to dwell: "See, there is the hill which God hath chosen above all others to inhabit! Yea, the Lord will dwell there for ever. His ark shall never be removed from it to any other dwelling whatsoever."