So that he forsook the tabernacle— This relates to that part of the history of the Jews which is given 1 Samuel 4.; for, upon their sending for the ark of God from the tabernacle, in which it was deposited at Shiloh, God smote them, and suffered the Philistines to take the ark. And so true it is that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, that he never returned to it again. See 1 Samuel 6:1.; 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 6.; 1 Kings 8:1 where the several removals of the ark are spoken of, which explain the remaining part of this psalm. Because God suffered the Philistines to take the ark, it is said, Psalms 78:61. That he delivered his strength and glory, i.e. the ark, into the enemies' hand; and Psalms 78:67. That he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, &c. for Shiloh was in the tribe of Ephraim, the son of Joseph; and God did not suffer his ark to return thither, but to go to Kirjath-jearim, which was in the tribe of Benjamin; from thence to the house of Obededom, and so to Sion, in the tribe of Judah, as it follows, Psalms 78:68.
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Psalms 78:60
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;