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Psalm 2:6
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
4He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
5Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
7I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.
8Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
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“Yet” answers opposition with God's settled choice, confronting the reader with a King whose place on Zion rests on God's own decision.
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Isaiah 61:1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim …God appoints someone in both passages: he sets the King on Zion and anoints the speaker in Isaiah for a work of release.
Psalm 121:1A Song of Ascents. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?Both mention hills, though Psalm 2 names Zion as God's holy hill while Psalm 121 asks where help comes from.
Psalm 24:3Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?Both name the LORD's hill as holy; one declares the King's placement there, while the other asks who may ascend.
Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to …Divine appointment connects the passages: God sets his King on Zion, and the speaker in Luke describes being anointed by the Lord.
Psalm 21:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!Both describe a king in relation to the LORD, who establishes him in Psalm 2 and supplies strength and salvation in Psalm 21.
Revelation 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written …Zion is the shared place: God sets his King there in the psalm, and Revelation shows the Lamb standing there.
Matthew 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.The King's position is established by God in the psalm; Jesus speaks in Matthew of authority that has been given to him.
Ezekiel 21:27I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.”’God sets his King in the psalm; in Ezekiel, he overturns and promises to give to the rightful recipient.
Psalm 3:4I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.God's holy hill is the place where he sets his King in Psalm 2 and from which he answers in Psalm 3.
Proverbs 8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.Both use language of being established, though the psalm names a King and Proverbs speaks of a time before the earth existed.
Isaiah 56:7I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; …God names a mountain as his own and holy in both passages, setting his King there and bringing people there for prayer.
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring …The shared thread is holiness: the psalm names God's holy hill, while Daniel speaks of a holy city and anointing the most holy.
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The opposition surrounding these words is real. God's answer is firm: the King on Zion holds his place because God has set him there.
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