Psalms 28:8
The LORD is the strength of His people, a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
BSB
ASV
Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
KJV
The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
BRIEF COMMENTARY ON PSALM 28 (420)
Whoever is baptized in Christ is his anointed.
God, in strengthening him that was their king and fought their battles, strengthened the whole kingdom. He calls himself God's anointed because it was the unction he had received that exposed him to the envy of his enemies, and therefore entitled him to the divine protection. Of Christ, his anointed, his Messiah, in the anti-type.
The Lord is their strength. The heavenly experience of one believer is a pattern of the life of all. To all the militant church, without exception, Jehovah is the same as he was to his servant David, "the least of them shall be as David." They need the same aid and they shall have it, for they are loved with the same love, written in the same book of life, and one with the same anointed Head. And he is the saving strength of his anointed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
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“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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight…
So He replied, “Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and…
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
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Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were seeking false testimony against Jesus in order to put Him to death.
The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.
When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people conspired against Jesus to put Him to death.