Verse Psalms 2:7. _I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE_] These words are supposed to have been spoken by the Messiah. I will declare to the world the decree, the purpose of God to redeem them by my blood, and t...
I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE - We have here another change in the speaker. The Anointed One is himself introduced as declaring the great purpose which was formed in regard to him, and referring to the pr...
Psalms 2 THE REJECTED KING _ 1. The rejection and the coming confederacy (Psalms 2:1)_ 2. Jehovah's attitude and interference (Psalms 2:4) 3. The coming of the King and his inheritance ...
II. MESSIAH'S REIGN. Also without a title. Here we have a distinctly Messianic Ps., put in this place, possibly, as an introduction to other Messianic Pss. which follow. Messianic it is in the stricte...
THE. for a. THOU ART MY SON. Quoted in Acts 13:33.Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 5:5. This is the Divine formula for anointing. Compare Matthew 3:17, for Pr
_the decree_ The solemn and authoritative edict, promulgated in the promise made to David and his house through Nathan (2 Samuel 7:12 ff). _hath said unto me_ Better, said unto me (R.V.), or, said of...
Jehovah has acknowledged the king as His own: and now the king takes up Jehovah's declaration, and appeals to the Divine decree of sonship, and the promise of world-wide dominion....
I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE— Or, _I will tell of a decree._ David having introduced God as declaring that he would speak to the confusion of his enemies, and convince them that he had made him king in S...
PSALMS 2 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Messiah's Reign in Zion Assured. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 2:1-3, A Conspiracy against Jehovah and His Anointed Foretold. Stanza II., Psalms 2:4-6, Jehovah's Counter...
_I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE: THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO ME, THOU ART MY SON; THIS DAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE._ The Messiah-King, so appointed by God, reiterates in His own words what already had been said b...
The Messianic King now speaks, quoting the promise given to David, the father of the dynasty, through Nathan the prophet: see 2 Samuel 7:4. THOU _ART_ MY SON; THIS DAY, etc.] on the day of his anointi...
The historical situation of this Ps. cannot now be recovered. It may refer to some threatened rebellion of subject kings in the early days of Solomon, or to some similar movement under one of the late...
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
I WILL DECLARE. — The anointed king now speaks himself, recalling the covenant made with him by Jehovah at his coronation. I WILL TELL. — Better, _Let me speak concerning the appointment._ The word re...
אֲסַפְּרָ֗ה אֶֽ֫ל חֹ֥ק יְֽהוָ֗ה אָמַ֘ר אֵלַ֥י...
Psalms 2:1 VARIOUS unsatisfactory conjectures as to a historical basis for this magnificent lyric have been made, but none succeeds in specifying events which fit with the situation painted in it. The...
GOD'S SON UPON HIS THRONE Psalms 2:1 This is one of the sublimest of the Psalms, and can find its fulfillment only in our Lord. See Acts 4:25; Acts 13:33; H
This is the psalm of Jehovah's King. It is impossible to fix the event for which it was written and to which it first referred. The wider application is perfectly patent. To whatsoever king the words...
I will declare the (d) decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this (e) day have I begotten thee. (d) To show that my calling to the kingdom is from God. (e) That is to say, concernin...
Thee. Chaldean weakens this text. (Haydock) --- "I love thee as my son, and look upon thee with the same affection, as if I had this day created thee;" which might be applied to David, now settled mor...
Is not this Jesus speaking in answer to what Jehovah the Father had said before? As soon as God had declared that he had set his King upon his holy hill of Zion, the Son of God comes forward to declar...
7._I will declare, _etc. David, to take away all pretense of ignorance from his enemies, assumes the office of a preacher in order to publish the decree of God; or at least he protests that he did not...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 1 AND 2. In Psalms 1, however, we have simply the godly remnant on the earth. I say remnant, for the subject of the psalm is spoken of as characterized by indivi...
I WILL DECLARE THE DECREE,.... These are the words of Jehovah's Anointed and King, exercising his kingly office, according to the decree and commandment of the Father: for these words refer not to the...
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou [art] my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ver. 7. _I will declare the decree_] That irrevocable decree of the Father, for the setting up...
_I will declare_ Or _publish_, that all people concerned may take notice of it and submit to it, if they would escape the divine judgments which will be executed on the refractory and disobedient; _th...
I will declare the decree, make known, express for a statute, publish as a resolution: THE LORD, the great Jehovah, the almighty God of the heavens, HATH SAID UNTO ME, THOU ART MY SON, standing in the...
The Divine Announcement. It is the Anointed of Jehovah, Jesus Christ Himself, who now speaks in person....
THE DECREE: Or, for a decree...
7-9 The kingdom of the Messiah is founded upon an eternal decree of God the Father. This our Lord Jesus often referred to, as what he governed himself by. God hath said unto him, Thou art my Son, and...
I WILL DECLARE, or _publish_, that all people concerned may take notice of it, and submit to it upon their peril. Publication or promulgation is essential to all laws or statutes. THE DECREE, or, _con...
Psalms 2:7 declare H5608 (H8762) decree H2706 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8804) Son H1121 Today H3117 begotten...
‘I will declare the decree of YHWH. He said to me, “You are my son, Today I have begotten you.” “Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the ear...
Psalms 2 I. The Psalm opens abruptly; here is no prelude; it is an utterance of amazement, begotten in the soul and breaking from the lips of one who looks out upon the nations and generations of man....
Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayi...
Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayi...
Psalms 2:1. _Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD, and against his anointed, sayin...
CONTENTS: The psalm of the king; rejected, established and finally reigning. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, kings of earth. CONCLUSION: The kings of earth are ever setting themselves in array against God...
This psalm, by a constant succession of the rabbins, is applied to Christ. If it have any bearing on David's enemies, for the eyes of prophets were often directed from objects near, to those which are...
_I will declare the decree._ THE LORD’S DECREE There is nothing in the economy of life and civilisation that is haphazard. Before all things and round about them as a glory and defence is the Lord’s...
_Why do the heathen rage?_ THE PROPHETICAL ELEMENT IN THE PSALM But though the poem was occasioned by some national event, we must not confine its application to that event, nor need we even suppose...
INTRODUCTION “It is quite impossible now to say what the event was which occasioned this poem. The older interpreters referred it to David, and the attacks made upon him by the Philistines (2 Samuel 5...
EXPOSITION HERE we have again a psalm without a title, and, so far, we are left to conjecture its age and author. The Jews, however, have always regarded it as Davidical; and there is evidence in Scri...
The second psalm deals with the Kingdom Age. The glorious Kingdom Age when Jesus reigns upon the earth. A Messianic psalm. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? For the kings...
Acts 13:33; Acts 8:37; Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 1:6; Hebrews 3:6;...
THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...
CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Satan an adept at counterfeits. As we enter into our study in the Psalms, we must first get the great message of the Psalms...
The decree — The will and appointment of God concerning this. My sin — Which tho' it may in some sort be said to, or of David, yet much more properly belongs to Christ, who is commonly known by this t...