Psalms 2:2

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The kings of the earth - This verse is designed to give a more specific form to the general statement in Psalms 2:1 . In the first verse the psa...
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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

set themselves . take their stand. take counsel together . have gathered by appointment. So the Septuagint and Aramaean. Compare Psalms 48:4 ....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying , Against his anoint...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The kings of the earth set themselves, &c.— Or, Rise up, and the rulers assemble together. Chandler renders it, Set themselves in opposition...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Set themselv...
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

Against the lord ] In rebelling against Jehovah's anointed King they were rebelling against Jehovah Himself.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Set themselves — i.e., with hostile intent, as in Jeremiah 46:4 , where the same word is used of warriors: “Stand forth with your helmets.” Ru...
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

The kings of the earth set themselves ,.... Rose and stood up in great wrath and fury, and presented themselves in an hostile manner, and opposed th...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, [saying], Ver. 2. The k...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The kings of the earth So called by way of contempt, and to show their madness in opposing the God of heaven. Herod the Great, Herod the Tetrarch,...
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

The kings; either those mentioned 2Sa 5 2Sa 8 ; or rather Herod the Great, and the other Herod, and Pilate, and others with or after them. Of 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

Against the Lord, and against His anointed. Taking counsel against Christ Anointed here means the same as Messiah, and both words the same as C...
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

The kings of the earth set themselves, sitting together in conspiracy, and the rulers take counsel together, all the earths greatest dignitaries co...
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

The kings — Herod, and Pilate and others with or after them. Earth — So called in way of contempt and to shew their madness in opposing the God of...

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

Related Commentaries of Psalms 2:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 2:2