“ Why do the heathen rage,a and the people imagine a vain thing? ”
Why do the heathen rage - “ Why do nations make a noise?” Prof. Alexander. The word “heathen” here - גוים gôyim - means properly “nations,” with out respect, so far as the word is concerned,...
Why do the (a) heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? (a) The conspiracy of the Gentiles, the murmuring of the Jews and power of kings cannot prevail against Christ.
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 stri...
The second Psalm of each book has to do with the enemy. See App-10. Why. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. Repeat at beginning of Psalms 2:2 . Compare Acts 4:25 ; Acts 4:26 . heathen ....
WE know how many conspired against David, and endeavored to prevent his coming to the throne, and from their hostile attempts, had he judged according to the eye of sense and reason, he might h...
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? Why do the heathen rage - It has been supposed that David composed this Psalm after he had taken Jerusalem from the Jebusites, and made i...
The kingdom of Christ: kings are exhorted to accept it. THE Jewish rabbis expound this Psalm (as Raschi informs us in his comment on the first verse) of king Messiah; though he himself explains i...
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? Why - expressing indignant astonishment and horror. The pagan - the Gentile nations х gowyim ( H1471 )], as distinguished...
The heathen ] RY 'the nations,' i.e. the Gentile or non-Jewish peoples. Rage] better, 'plot together.'
Why do the heathen rage? — Better, Why did nations band together, or muster? The Hebrew occurs only here as a verb, but derivatives occur in Pss. 4:14, Psalms 64:2 : in the first, of a fest...
Psalms 2:1-12 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...
God's Son upon His Throne Psalms 2:1-12 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 ; Hebrews 1:5 ; Hebrews 5:5 ;...
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...
CONTENTS This glorious Psalm is all over gospel, and speaks of nothing but of God, and his Christ, from beginning to end. The Holy Ghost, by his servants Peter and John, in one Scripture, and by his...
THE IDEAL KING ‘Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?’ Psalms 2:1 This psalm is full of that great national hope of the Jews concerning Him that was to come. The nobles...
Why do the Heathen rage ,.... Or "the nations"; which some understand of the Jews, who are so called, Genesis 17:5 ; because of their various tribes; and of their rage against the Messiah there hav...
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? Ver. 1. Why do the heathen rage? ] WHY? or for what reason? The psalm beginneth abruptly, with an angry interrogation; q.d. What? ar...
Why do the heathen rage? Hebrew, גוים, goim, the nations , namely, 1st, Those bordering on Judea in David's time, who raged against him, when exalted to the throne of Judah and Israel, 2 Samuel 5...
The Enemies of Messiah. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set...
PSALM 2 THE ARGUMENT The penman of this Psalm was David, as is affirmed, Acts 4:25 . As for the matter or subject of it, it may seem to have some respect unto David, and to his advancement to an...
The Nations In Rebellion Against YHWH and Against His Anointed One Psalms 2:1-3 ‘Why do the nations rage, And the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the...
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 Samue...
Psalms 2:1 This Psalm belongs to the class called Messianic. It is a psalm full of that great national hope of the Jews concerning Him that was to come. The noblest kind of national hope, the high...
Psalms 2:1-3 . 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,...
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 ar...
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 supp...
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...
Why do the heathen rage, the nations seething, surging, with resentful murmurings, and the people imagine a vain thing? The inspired poets indignation and contempt is immediately expressed in the r...
Acts 16:22 ; Acts 17:5 ; Acts 17:6 ; Acts 19:28-32 ; Acts 4:25 ; Acts 5:33 ; Isaiah 8:9 ; John 11:49 ; John 11:50 ; Luke 18:32 ; Luke 22:1 ; Luke 22:2 ; Luke 22:22 ; Luke 22:23 ; Luke...
Christ Versus the Antichrist Psalms 1:1-6 ; Psalms 2:1-9 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...
Heathen — Who did so against David, 2 Samuel 5:6 , 2 Samuel 5:17 ; 1 Chronicles 14:8 , and against Christ, Luke 18:32 ; Acts 4:25 , &c.