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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 2:11

Verse Psalms 2:11. Serve the Lord with fear] A general direction to all men. Fear God with that reverence which is due to his supreme majesty. Serve him as subjects should their sovereign, and as servants should their master.

Rejoice with trembling.] If ye serve God aright, ye cannot but be happy; but let a continual filial fear moderate all your joys. Ye must all stand at last before the judgment-seat of God; watch, pray, believe, work, and keep humble.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR - With reverence, and with deep apprehensions of the consequences of not serving and obeying him. That is, serve him in not opposing, but in promoting his purpose of establish...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 2 THE REJECTED KING _ 1. The rejection and the coming confederacy (Psalms 2:1)_ 2. Jehovah's attitude and interference (Psalms 2:4) 3. The coming of the King and his inheritance ...

  • 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 stricte...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD. Hebrew. _'eth_ Jehovah. App-4. (objective)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The poet speaks, drawing the lesson from the great truths which have been set forth. There is a better way. Submission may avert destruction. The leaders of the nations are exhorted to be wise in time...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Serve_ The context indicates that political submission to Jehovah in the person of His representative is primarily intended. Cp. Psalms 18:43; Psalms 72:11. But the wider meaning must not be excluded...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 2 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Messiah's Reign in Zion Assured. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 2:1-3, A Conspiracy against Jehovah and His Anointed Foretold. Stanza II., Psalms 2:4-6, Jehovah's Counter...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR, AND REJOICE WITH TREMBLING._ Serve the Lord - instead of 'taking counsel together' to cast away the bands of Yahweh and His Messiah (Psalms 2:2). REJOICE, х_ GIYLUW_ (H152...

  • 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 late...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עִבְד֣וּ אֶת ־יְהוָ֣ה בְּ יִרְאָ֑ה וְ֝ גִ֗ילו

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 2:1 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 it. The...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S SON UPON HIS THRONE Psalms 2:1 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; H

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Trembling, with reverential awe and humility, (1 Corinthians ii. 3.; Amama) as none is sure of salvation. (Bell.[Bellarmine?]) --- More are list by presumption than by trembling. (Amama)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 1 AND 2. In Psalms 1, however, we have simply the godly remnant on the earth. I say remnant, for the subject of the psalm is spoken of as characterized by indivi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SERVE THE LORD WITH FEAR,.... Not the creature, neither more, nor besides, nor with the Creator; God and mammon cannot both be served; nor any fictitious and nominal deities, the idols of the Gentiles...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Ver. 11. _Serve the Lord with fear_] _Timore non servili sed amicali,_ with reverence and godly fear, Hebrews 12:28. Say to Christ, as the people...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Serve the Lord with fear_ That is, with reverence and an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty, rendering you careful and diligent to please him, and afraid to offend him. _And rejoice_ Do no...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Divine Announcement. It is the Anointed of Jehovah, Jesus Christ Himself, who now speaks in person....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling; they should place themselves fully and unreservedly in His service, although this joyful service would be attended with sacred awe, fear, and trem...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-12 Whatever we rejoice in, in this world, it must always be with trembling, because of the uncertainty of all things in it. To welcome Jesus Christ, and to submit to him, is our wisdom and interes...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH FEAR, i.e. with reverence, and an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty, as very careful and diligent to please him, and afraid to offend him. REJOICE; do not esteem his yoke your dishono...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 2:11 Serve H5647 (H8798) LORD H3068 fear H3374 rejoice H1523 (H8798) trembling H7461 Serve -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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 peris...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • 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 man....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:11 Why did Christ show Himself to so few witnesses after He rose from the dead? Because He was a _King,_a King exalted upon God's "holy hill of Zion." Kings do not court the multitude, or sh...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:1. _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, sayin...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 2:1. _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, sayi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The psalm of the king; rejected, established and finally reigning. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, kings of earth. CONCLUSION: The kings of earth are ever setting themselves in array against God...

  • 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 are...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling._ ANTAGONISTIC FORCES The scientist tells us that the laws of nature are arranged on the principle of antagonistic forces; and it is somewhat th...

  • 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 suppose...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 2:1. God made David and his descendants kings in order to fulfill the purpose for which Abraham was called: to bring blessing to all nations (Genesi

  • The 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 Samuel 5...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 in Scri...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The second psalm deals with the Kingdom Age. The glorious Kingdom Age when Jesus reigns upon the earth. A Messianic psalm. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? For the kings...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 12:25; Hebrews 12:28; Hebrews 12:29; Hebrews 4:1; Hebrews 4:2

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PREFATORY PSALMS Psalms 1:1, _Psalms 2:1, and Psalms 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The first chapter of the Psalm is its preface. You may call it, if you wish, the prefatory Psalm. It gives you the ke...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fear — With an awful sense of his great and glorious majesty. Rejoice — Do not esteem his yoke your dishonour and grievance; but rejoice in this inestimable grace and benefit. Trembling — This is adde...

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