“ Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. ”
Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings - This is to be understood as the language of the psalmist. See introduction to the psalm, Section 3. It is an exhortation addressed to the rulers and princes w...
(g) Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. (g) He exhorts all rulers to repent in time.
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...
Be wise. Figure of speech Apostrophe. App-6.
David having, as a preacher of the judgments of God, set forth the vengeance which God would take upon his enemies proceeds now, in the character of a prophet and teacher, to exhort the unbelie...
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Be wise - O ye kings - An exhortation of the Gospel to the rulers of all kingdoms, nations, and states, to whom it may be sen...
Be instructed— Or, Be reformed.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Be wise ... O ye kings - offers of grace ever accompanying threats against sinners in this day of God's long-sufferin...
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 lat...
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...
Who can complain after so gracious, so kind, and tender an entreaty, if neglecting so great salvation, they should lose it? Gracious Lord, I would approach thee with reverence and godly fear. I would...
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings ,.... This address is made not so much to the kings of the earth in David's time, as to those who would be under the Gospel dispensation, and times of the Messiah;...
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Ver. 10. Be wise now therefore, O ye kings ] Redeem your own sorrows by trembling at God's judgments, while they hang in t...
Be wise now therefore Understand your true interest while you have time and space for repentance and submission; O ye kings You and your people. Be instructed, ye judges Or rulers, you and thos...
Warning to the Enemies of Messiah. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11 Se...
Be wise; understand your true interest. Now, whilst you have time and space for repentance and submission. O ye kings; you and your people. But he speaks of and to kings only; partly, because the...
The Call For Response. ‘Now therefore be wise, O you kings, Be instructed you judges of the earth, Serve YHWH with fear, And rejoice with trembling, Kiss the son, lest he be angry, And you pe...
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 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...
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...
The Divine Announcement. It is the Anointed of Jehovah, Jesus Christ Himself, who now speaks in person.
Hosea 14:9 ; Isaiah 49:23 ; Isaiah 52:15 ; Isaiah 60:10 ; Isaiah 60:11 ; Isaiah 60:3 ; Jeremiah 6:8 ; Psalms 45:12 ; Psalms 72:10 ; Psalms 72:11 ; Psalms 82:1-8
The Prefatory Psalms Psalms 1:1-6 , Psalms 2:1-12 , and Psalms 3:1-8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm....
Now — While you have time for repentance and submission.