American Standard Version
Psalms 2:6
6Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psalms 2:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
- New International Version (NIV)“I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill."
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
Context of Psalms 2:6
4He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision. 5Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure: Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion. 7I will tell of the decree: Jehovah said unto me, Thou art my son; This day have I begotten thee. 8Ask of me, and I will givetheethe nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Read all of Psalms 2Psalms 2:6 word by word
וַ֭אֲנִי נָסַ֣כְתִּי מַלְכִּ֑י עַל־צִ֝יּ֗וֹן הַר־קָדְשִֽׁי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 2:6
- Psalms 45:6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
- Psalms 89:27I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 110:1Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, Until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
- Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Daniel 7:13I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like unto a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Matthew 28:18And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.
- Acts 2:34For David ascended not into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
- Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.
- Ephesians 1:22and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
- Philippians 2:9Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;
- Psalms 48:1Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
- Psalms 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined forth.
- Psalms 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
- Psalms 132:13For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.
- Hebrews 12:22but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,
- Revelation 14:1And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
Commentaries on Psalms 2:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion - Here the Gospel shall be first preached; here the kingdom of Christ shall be founded; and from hence shall the doctrine of the Lord go out into all the earth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Yet have I set my king - The word “yet” is merely the translation of the conjunction “and.” It is rendered in the Vulgate “but autem;” and so in the Septuagint, ́ de It would be better rendered perhaps by the usual word “and:” “And I have set or constituted my king,” etc. This is properly to be regarded as the expression of God himself; as what he says in reply to their declared purposes Psalm 2:3, and as what is referred to in Psalm 2:5. The meaning…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6My King: The Lord himself appoints and establishes his anointed ruler. The word anointed means chosen and set apart by God for a special purpose.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. The purpose here declared, in its execution, involves their overthrow. Yet--literally, "and," in an adversative sense. I have set--anointed, or firmly placed, with allusion in the Hebrew to "casting an image in a mould." The sense is not materially varied in either case. my king--appointed by Me and for Me (Nu 27:18). upon my holy hill of Zion--Zion, selected by David as the abode of the ark and the seat of God's visible residence (1Ki 8:1); as also…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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