Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 2:2
Verse Psalms 2:2. Against his anointed] על משיחיה al Meshichiah, "Against his Messiah." - Chaldee. But as this signifies the anointed person, it may refer first to David, as it does secondly to Christ.
Verse Psalms 2:2. Against his anointed] על משיחיה al Meshichiah, "Against his Messiah." - Chaldee. But as this signifies the anointed person, it may refer first to David, as it does secondly to Christ.
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH - This verse is designed to give a more specific form to the general statement in Psalms 2:1. In the first verse the psalmist sees a general commotion among the nations as engag...
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...
SET THEMSELVES. take their stand. TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER. have gathered by appointment. So the Septuagint and Aramaean. Compare Psalms 48:4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. ANOINTED. Messiah. So...
The muster of the nations and its design....
_The kings of the earth_ In contrast to -my king," Psalms 2:6. Cp. the use of the phrase in striking contexts, Psalms 76:12; Psalms 89:27; Psalms 102:15
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, &C.— Or, _Rise up, and the rulers assemble together._ Chandler renders it, _Set themselves in opposition, and instigate each other._ This gives a very strong and...
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...
_THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, AGAINST THE LORD, AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED, SAYING,_ Set themselves - implying their determined attitude in array "agains...
2:2 themselves, (d-7) Or 'stand up.'...
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...
Against the LORD] In rebelling against Jehovah's anointed King they were rebelling against Jehovah Himself....
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...
SET THEMSELVES — _i.e., with hostile intent,_ as in Jeremiah 46:4, where the same word is used of warriors: “Stand forth with your helmets.” RULERS. — Properly, _grave dignitaries._ TAKE COUNSEL. — B...
יִ֥תְיַצְּב֨וּ ׀ מַלְכֵי ־אֶ֗רֶץ וְ רֹוזְנִ֥ים נֹֽוסְדוּ...
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...
Kings. Herod and Pilate, (Worthington) who acted for the Roman emperor. --- Princes, of the priests, (Haydock) Annas and Caiaphas. But all the rage of the Gentiles and Jews against Christ was fruitles...
Not only the rabble, and the common people, join in the confederacy against God and his Christ, but the kings and potentates. 'Herod and Pontius Pilate, of a truth, ' said the apostle. And how many si...
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...
THE KINGS OF THE EARTH SET THEMSELVES,.... Rose and stood up in great wrath and fury, and presented themselves in an hostile manner, and opposed the Messiah: as Herod the great, king of Judea, who ver...
_The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying],_ Ver. 2. _The kings of the earth set themselves_] Or, stand up, as...
_The kings of the earth_ So called by way of contempt, and to show their madness in opposing the God of heaven. Herod the Great, Herod the Tetrarch, Pilate and other princes and magistrates, with or a...
OF THE ETERNAL SONSHIP OF THE MESSIAH. The Futile Rage Of The Nations. That the entire psalm is Messianic is clearly shown by the quotation Acts 4:25, together with the explanation there added: "For...
The kings of the earth set themselves, sitting together in conspiracy, AND THE RULERS TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER, all the earths greatest dignitaries consulting with one another in sullen rebellious activi...
1-6 We are here told who would appear as adversaries to Christ. As this world is the kingdom of Satan, unconverted men, of every rank, party, and character, are stirred up by him to oppose the cause...
THE KINGS; either those mentioned 2SA 5 2SA 8; or rather Herod the Great, and the other Herod, and Pilate, and others with or after them. OF THE EARTH; so called in way of contempt, and to show their...
Psalms 2:1-12:2 kings H4428 earth H776 set H3320 (H8691) rulers H7336 (H8802) counsel H3245 (H8738) together...
THE NATIONS IN REBELLION AGAINST YHWH AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED ONE Psalms 2:1 ‘Why do the nations rage, And the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers...
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, sayin...
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...
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...
_Against the Lord, and against His anointed._ TAKING COUNSEL AGAINST CHRIST Anointed here means the same as Messiah, and both words the same as Christ in the New Testament. How literally were the wor...
_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...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 2:1. God made David and his descendants kings in order to fulfill the purpose for which Abraham was called: to bring blessing to all nations (Genesi
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 2:2 The word “Messiah” comes from transliterating the Hebrew word for ANOINTED, and the word “Christ” comes from translating “Anointed” into Greek. For the Gentiles to rebel again...
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 10:38; Acts 12:1; Acts 4:5; Acts 9:4; Exodus 16:7;...
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 kings — Herod, and Pilate and others with or after them. Earth — So called in way of contempt and to shew their madness in opposing the God of heaven. Set — The word denotes the combination of the...