Psalms 87:6 · KJV
“The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, {that} this {man} was born there. Selah.”
— Psalms 87:6
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
As well the singers as the players on instruments {shall be there}: all my springs {are} in thee.
Psalms 87 — Context
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this {man} was born there.
5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
6The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, {that} this {man} was born there. Selah.
7As well the singers as the players on instruments {shall be there}: all my springs {are} in thee.
Cross References
Isaiah 4:3
And it shall come to pass, {that he that is} left in Zion, and {he that} remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, {even} every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: {among...: or, to life}
Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I {am} the Lord GOD. {assembly: or, secret, or, counsel}
Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Philippians 4:3
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and {with} other my fellowlabourers, whose names {are} in the book of life.
Psalms 69:28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. {from me: Heb. from after me} {a goodly...: Heb. an heritage of glory, or, beauty} {pleasant...: Heb. land of desire}