Psalms 2:3

their: i.e. Jehovah's, and Messiah's.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let us break their bands asunder - The bands of Yahweh and of his Anointed. They who are engaged in this combination or conspiracy regard Yahweh...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(b) Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. (b) Thus the wicked say that they will cast off the yoke of God and of his...
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 Messia...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. Let us break, etc. This is a prosopopoeia, (25) in which the prophet introduces his-enemies as speaking; and he employs this figure th...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Let us break their bands - These are the words of the confederate heathen powers...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let us break their bands— This is the language of the nations and people instigating each other to this impious war. To be in bonds, and tied with...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. The easy yoke of Jesus seems to natural men a galling chain. The law of Y...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Bands ] The words of the kings are of course metaphorical; they were seeking to cast off what was to them a foreign yoke.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Let us break. — The whispered purpose now breaks out into loud menace, and we hear their defiance pass along the ranks of the rebels. Cords. — T...
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 specifyi...
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:...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 Pila...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let us break their bands asunder ,.... These are not the words of the apostles, nor of the saints in Gospel times, encouraging one another, notwiths...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Ver. 3. Let us break their bands asunder, &c. ] Here these rebels are bro...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let us break their bands asunder That is, the laws of the Lord and his Anointed; the bands or yokes which they design to put upon our necks, that t...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Enemies of Messiah. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people ima...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Their, i.e. the Lord's and his anointed s, bands, which they design to put upon our necks, that they may bring us into subjection. They mean the...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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?...
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...
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...
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 tog...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 2:1-2 . Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel tog...
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 tog...
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 o...
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 it...
The Biblical Illustrator

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Sinners vainly attempt to dissolve their obligations I. The obligations si...
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 alwa...
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 Act...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. The wicked of all times resent the kingly dignity and power, the government, of J...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:7 ; 1 Peter 2:8 ; Jeremiah 5:5 ; Luke 19:4
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...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

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. Y...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And cast — The same thing expressed with more emphasis. Let us not only break off their yoke and the cords by which it is fastened upon us, but let...

³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 2:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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