1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 2:8; Jeremiah 5:5; Luke 19:4
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...
(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...
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...
their: i.e. Jehovah's, and Messiah's.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bands ] The words of the kings are of course metaphorical; they were seeking to cast off what was to them a foreign yoke.
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...
Psalms 2:1-12 VARIOUS unsatisfactory conjectures as to a historical basis for this magnificent lyric have been made, but none succeeds in specifyi...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Enemies of Messiah. 1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people ima...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. Sinners vainly attempt to dissolve their obligations I. The obligations si...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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.