Psalms 2:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalms 2:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:13
The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
Psalms 59:8
But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Psalms 11:4
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

We have here a very great struggle about the kingdom of Christ, hell and heaven contesting it; the seat of the war is this earth, where Satan has long had a usurped kingdom and exercised dominion to such a degree that he has been called the prince of the power of the very air we breathe in and the god of the world we live in. He knows very well that, as the Messiah’s kingdom rises and gets ground,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. By a figure whose boldness is only allowable to an inspired writer, God’s conduct and language in view of this opposition are now related. He that sitteth in the heavens--enthroned in quiet dignities (compare Psa 29:10; Is 40:22). shall laugh--in supreme contempt; their vain rage excites His derision. He is still the Lord, literally, “Sovereign,” though they rebel.