Psalm 2:7

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:0 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. He discerns, in his widespread view, one perpetual restlessness, one ceaseless movement of discontent, the throbbing of a rebellion that cannot be appeased, of a vain, bitter, ceaseless revolt. That rebellion against God which in the vast ignorant masses of the world is half unconscious in their... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 2:1-12

DISCOURSE: 495OPPOSITION TO CHRIST VAINPsalms 2:1-12. 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, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:1-12 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 of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his Anointed ( Psalms 2:1-2 ),"His Anointed" there is His Messiah. The word Messiah is the anointed one. So they have taken counsel together against Jehovah and against His... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 2:1-12

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 remote, it is not the less prophetic on that account. The rending of the altar, 1 Kings 13:0., and Isaiah’s infant son, chap. 7., are both of that nature. To restrict this psalm to the Philistines, who took alarm at David’s coronation, would be applying it to an object not altogether novel, there... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 2:1-12

Psalms 2:1-12Why do the heathen rage? The prophetical element in the PsalmBut though the poem was occasioned by some national event, we must not confine its application to that event, nor need we even suppose that the singer himself did not feel that his words went beyond their first occasion. He begins to speak of an earthly king, and his wars with the nations of the earth; but his words are too great to have all their meaning exhausted in David, or Solomon, or Ahaz, or any Jewish monarch. Or... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 2:7

Psalms 2:7I will declare the decree.The Lord’s decreeThere 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 “decree.” Under all disorder is law. The law is first beneficent, and then retributive. It is beneficent because it contemplates the recovery and sanctification of the heathen and the uttermost parts of the earth. It is retributive because if this offer of enclosure and honour is rejected,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 2:7

Psa 2:7 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 of his Son’s sceptre contra gentes, point blank opposite to that decree of theirs, Psalms 2:3 . This ordinance or decree of his Christ is still declaring in his Church by the ministers of the gospel, whose office it is to set forth Christ to the world in all his offices and efficacies, and... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 2:7

the decree: or, for a decree, Psalms 148:6, Job 23:13, Isaiah 46:10 Thou: Matthew 3:17, Matthew 8:29, Matthew 16:16, Matthew 17:5, Acts 8:37, Acts 13:33, Romans 1:4, Hebrews 1:5, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 5:5, Hebrews 5:8 this: Psalms 89:27, John 1:14, John 1:18, John 3:16, Hebrews 1:6 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:31 - a buckler 1 Chronicles 17:13 - my son Psalms 2:12 - Son Proverbs 8:24 - I was Proverbs 30:4 - and what Ezekiel 21:10 - General Daniel 4:24 - the decree Zechariah 12:8 - the house... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 2:7

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.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 title both in the Old and New Testament, and to whom this title is expressly appropriated by the holy ghost, who is the best interpreter of his own words, Acts 13:33; Hebrews 1:5.This day — This may... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 2:7

7. I will declare the decree David now prophetically speaks in the person of Christ, or in Christ’s stead, who is called, Psalms 2:2, the “Anointed” of Jehovah, and, in Psalms 2:6, Jehovah’s “King,” and in this verse, Jehovah’s “Son.” The language now passes to the highest reach of prophetico-typical description. Thou art my Son The “my” denotes the promulgator of the “decree;” the “Son” is he in whose favour the decree is proclaimed David’s royal descendant and yet David’s Lord the... read more