Psalms 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ”

• Psalms 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He that sitteth in the heavens - God, represented as having his home, his seat, his throne in heaven, and thence administering the affairs of the world. This verse commences the second strophe or...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  laugh. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6. The LORD* . Primitive text was Jehovah. Altered by the Sopherim to Adonai. See App-32.

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• Psalms 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  After David has told us of the tumult and commotions, the counsels and pride, the preparation and resources the strength and efforts of his enemies, in opposition to all these he places the pow...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. He that sitteth in the heavens - Whose kingdom ruleth over all, and is above all might and power, human and diabolica...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He that sitteth, &c.— Or, He that dwelleth. This is spoken of God, (after the manner of men,) to denote his utter contempt of the opposition of his enemies; the perfect ease with which he was...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. The scene passes from earth to heaven, from Antichrist and his confederate hosts to Yahweh on His throne above...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He that sitteth. — Here the psalm, with a sublimity truly Hebrew, turns from the wild confusion on earth to the spectacle of God looking down with mingled scorn and wrath on the fruitless attempts...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 ;...

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• Psalms 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  What is here said of the sovereignty of Jehovah, of sitting in the heavens, of speaking in his wrath, of laughing, and the like, is intended to convey, by expressions of this nature, is best adapted...

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• Psalms 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh ,.... At the rage and tumult of the Heathen; at the vain imaginations of the people; at the opposition of the kings of the earth; at the mad counsel of the...

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• Psalms 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Ver. 4. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh at them ] Videt, ridet. He seeth and smileth, he looketh and...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that sitteth in the heavens As the judge upon his tribunal, weighing the actions of men, and as the king of the whole earth upon his royal throne; who, without moving from his place, can with on...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Enemies of Messiah.       1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?   2 The kings of the earth set...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He that sitteth, as the Judge upon his tribunal, and as the King of the whole world upon his royal throne; who, without stirring from his place, can with one look or word destroy all his enemies....

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• Psalms 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  God Will Laugh At Man's Folly And Exalt His Anointed. ‘He who sits in the heavens will laugh, The Lord will have them in derision, Then will he speak to them in his wrath, And vex them in his s...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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,...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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 4:25-26 , together with the explanation there ad...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 19:21 ; Isaiah 40:22 ; Isaiah 57:15 ; Isaiah 66:1 ; Proverbs 1:26 ; Psalms 11:4 ; Psalms 115:3 ; Psalms 37:13 ; Psalms 53:5 ; Psalms 59:8 ; Psalms 68:33

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• Psalms 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Sitteth — As the king of the whole world. Heavens — As an evidence both of God's clear and certain knowledge of all things that are done below, and of his sovereign and irresistible power. Laugh —...

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