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Verse Psalms 2:3. _LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS_] These are the words of
the confederate heathen powers; and here, as Bishop Horne well
remarks, "we may see the ground of opposition; namely, the
unwilling...
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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 and his Anointed as one, and as having one object - to...
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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 (Psalms 2:7...
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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...
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THEIR: i.e. Jehovah's, and Messiah's....
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The muster of the nations and its design....
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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 cords, is to be reduced to the utmost state of vassal...
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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 Counte...
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_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 Yahweh, and especially the Gospel law of Messiah, which...
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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...
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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...
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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. — The LXX. and Vulg. have “yoke,” which is in keeping
with...
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נְֽ֭נַתְּקָה אֶת ־מֹֽוסְרֹותֵ֑ימֹו
וְ נַשְׁלִ֖יכָה מִמֶּ֣נּוּ
עֲבֹתֵֽימֹו׃...
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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...
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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; Hebrews 1:5;
Hebrews 5:5; Revelation 2:27....
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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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(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 Christ....
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_Us. Let us no longer be subject to the old law, which is abrogated,
(St. Augustine) or the enemies of David, and of Christ, encourage one
another (Calmet) to subvert their authority, before it be too...
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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 Pilate, of a truth, ' said the apostle. And how many si...
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3._Let us break, etc_. This is a prosopopoeia, (25) in which the
prophet introduces his-enemies as speaking; and he employs this figure
the better to express their ungodly and traitorous design. Not t...
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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 indiv...
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LET US BREAK THEIR BANDS ASUNDER,.... These are not the words of the
apostles, nor of the saints in Gospel times, encouraging one another,
notwithstanding the rage and opposition of Jews and Gentiles...
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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 brought in proclaiming their treasonable decrees against Ch...
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_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 they may bring us into subjection. The laws of God a...
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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, together with the explanation there added: "For...
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1-6 We are here told who would appear as adversaries to Christ. As
this world is the kingdom of Satan, unconverted men, of every rank,
party, and character, are stirred up by him to oppose the cause...
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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 laws of God, which the king would oblige them to observ...
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Psalms 2:3 break H5423 bonds H4147 pieces H5423 (H8762) away H7993
(H8686) cords H5688
Jeremiah 5:5; Luke 19:14, Luke 19:27; 1 Peter 2:7-8...
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THE NATIONS IN REBELLION AGAINST YHWH AND AGAINST HIS ANOINTED ONE
Psalms 2:1
‘Why do the nations rage,
And the people imagine a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 (Genesis 12:1). At a time when G...
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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...
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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 Scr...
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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...
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1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 2:8; Jeremiah 5:5; Luke 19:4...
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CHRIST VERSUS THE ANTICHRIST
Psalms 1:1; Psalms 2:1
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 the Psalms...
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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 us cast them far away....