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Psalm 2:1 KJV

Psalms · chapter 2 · verse 1

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Psalm 2:1 · King James Version

Psalm 2:1 in context

1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

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Commentary

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…

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6

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