New King James Version
Psalms 2:6
6“Yet I have set My King On 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 Living Translation (NLT)For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”
Context of Psalms 2:6
4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. 5Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.” 7“I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. 8Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
Read all of Psalms 2Psalms 2:6 word by word
וַ֭אֲנִי נָסַ֣כְתִּי מַלְכִּ֑י עַל־צִ֝יּ֗וֹן הַר־קָדְשִֽׁי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 2:6
- Psalms 45:6Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
- Psalms 89:27Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
- Psalms 110:1The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
- Isaiah 9:6For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Daniel 7:13“I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him.
- Matthew 28:18And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
- Acts 2:34“For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand,
- Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.
- Ephesians 1:22And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
- Philippians 2:9Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,
- Psalms 48:1Great is the Lord, 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 will shine forth.
- Psalms 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
- Psalms 132:13For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place:
- Hebrews 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels,
- Revelation 14:1Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name 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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