Psalms 2:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 2:3

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

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ASV

Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

WEB

“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”

YLT

`Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

DBT

Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us!

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Jeremiah 5:5
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Luke 19:27
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
1 Peter 2:7–8
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
Genesis 37:8
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

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Jeremiah 44:16

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It is certain that all who are enemies to Christ, whatever they pretend, are enemies to God himself; they have hated both me and my Father, John xv. The great author of our holy religion is here called the Lord's anointed, or Messiah, or Christ, in allusion to the anointing of David to be king.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Promises made to Christ, ver. 7-9. Counsel given to all, to submit to him, ver. 10-12.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Let us break, etc. This is a prosopopoeia, in which the prophet introduces his-enemies as speaking; and he employs this figure the better to express their ungodly and traitorous design.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Christ has bands and cords for us; those that will be saved by him must be ruled by him; but they are cords of a man, agreeable to right reason, and bands of love, conducive to our true interest: and yet against those the quarrel is. Why do men oppose religion but because they are impatient of its restraints and obligations?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Christ is said to be the first-begotten and first-born from the dead, Rev. i. Immediately after his resurrection he entered upon the administration of his mediatorial kingdom; it was then that he said, All power is given unto me, and to that especially he had an eye when he taught his disciples to pray, Thy kingdom come.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The rebellious purposes of men are more distinctly announced by this representation of their avowal in words, as well as actions. bands . . . and . . . cords--denote the restraints of government.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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