Psalms 78:67

“Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, etc.] That is, the tabernacle of Moses, which had been for a long time at Shiloh, a city in the tribe of Ephraim, the son of Joseph; when the ark was brought back by the Philistines, it was not returned to Shiloh, but carried to Kirjathjearim, where it remained twenty years, and after that was had to Zion, the city of David, (<090701>1 Samuel 7:1,2 <100603>2 Samuel 6:3,4,12), so the Targum, “and he rejected the tabernacle which he had stretched out in the border of Joseph;” he did not refuse the tabernacle, or remove his presence from it; but he refused the place it had been in, or refused that it should be any more there: and chose not the…”

“Moreover, he refused the tabernacle of Joseph - As a place where his worship should be celebrated. This is the completion of the statement in Psalms 78:60. The design is to show that there had been a transfer of the preeminence from the tribe of Ephraim to the tribe of Judah, and from Shiloh to Zion. Joseph is mentioned here as the father of Ephraim, from whom one of the tribes - (one of the most influential and numerous) - was named. Jacob had twelve sons, from whom the twelve tribes in general took their name. As the tribe of Levi, however, being devoted to the sacerdotal work, was not reckoned as one of the, twelve, the number was made up by giving to the descendants of the two sons of…”

“Refused - He would not have his ark to abide any longer in the tabernacle of Shiloh, which was in the tribe of Joseph or Ephraim. Psalms 78:68”

“78:67 The tribe of Ephraim was not completely rejected, but God favored Judah (78:68).”

“Sa1 6:21, Sa1 7:1; Sa2 6:2, Sa2 6:17 Psalms 78:68”