Psalms 2:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 2

⁸Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Psalms 2:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalms 89:27
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Psalms 72:8
He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.
John 17:4-5
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. …
Daniel 7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 7-9)

We have heard what the kings of the earth have to say against Christ’s kingdom, and have heard it gainsaid by him that sits in heaven; let us now hear what the Messiah himself has to say for his kingdom, to make good his claims, and it is what all the powers on earth cannot gainsay. I. The kingdom of the Messiah is founded upon a decree, an eternal decree, of God the Father. It was not a sudden re…

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

(vv. 8)

8. The hopes of the rebels are thus overthrown, and not only so; the kingdom they opposed is destined to be coextensive with the earth. heathen--or, “nations” (Psa 2:1). and the uttermost parts of the earth--(Psa 22:27); denotes universality.