In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. Psalms 76:1-12.-At Zion, God's dwelling, He brake the world-power's weapons (Psalms 76:1-3); He is mightier than the mountain-like plundering nations, because He has cast the stout-hearted into a dead sleep, and stilled the earth; His anger therefore is most to be feared: man's anger He constrains to praise Him (Psalms 76:4-10); Yahweh's people ought therefore to pay their vow to Him, and the surrounding pagan to bring presents (Psalms 76:11-12). See introduction to Psalms 75:1-10, written before Sennacherib's overthrow, as this psalm after it. The overthrow was at Jerusalem (cf. Psalms 76:3 with Isaiah 37:1-38), by God's direction interposition (Psalms 76:3; Psalms 76:6; Psalms 76:8). Psalms 76:12 refers to the "cutting off" of the hostile "princes," Rabshakeh, etc., not merely their being driven away.
In Judah is God known - i:e., has been made known by his wondrous acts.
His name is great in Israel. "Israel" is explained by the parallel term Judah, which inherited all the privileges of God's covenant, now that the Kingdom of the Ten Tribes had ceased to exist. "His name" is His manifestation of Himself in action. His overthrow of Sennacherib's host before Jerusalem was a glorious manifestatation of Himself, as the God of Omnipotence, and of grace to His people.