Psalm 78:72 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

With upright heart he tended them and guided them with skillful hand.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So [David] was their shepherd with an upright heart; he guided them by the discernment and skillfulness [which controlled] his hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Common English Bible

David shepherded them with a heart of integrity; he led them with the skill of his hands.

Psalm 78:72 Cross References

2 Samuel 8:15

So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

1 Kings 15:5

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 3:28

All Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice.

1 Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

Psalm 75:2

At the set time that I appoint, I will judge with equity.

Ezekiel 34:2

Mortal, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: To the shepherds—thus says the Lord God: Woe, you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?

Acts 13:22

When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’

Acts 13:36

“For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, died, was laid beside his ancestors, and experienced corruption,

2 Timothy 2:15

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth.

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.