Psalms 2:7
ContextNETBible | The king says, 1 “I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: 2 ‘You are my son! 3 This very day I have become your father! |
XREF | Job 23:13; Ps 89:27; Ps 148:6; Isa 46:10; Mt 3:17; Mt 8:29; Mt 16:16; Mt 17:5; Joh 1:14,18; Joh 3:16; Ac 8:37; Ac 13:33; Ro 1:4; Heb 1:5; Heb 1:6; Heb 3:6; Heb 5:5,8 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The words “the king says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The speaker is the Lord’s chosen king. 2 tn Or “I will relate the decree. The 3 sn ‘You are my son!’ The Davidic king was viewed as God’s “son” (see 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 89:26-27). The idiom reflects ancient Near Eastern adoption language associated with covenants of grant, by which a lord would reward a faithful subject by elevating him to special status, referred to as “sonship.” Like a son, the faithful subject received an “inheritance,” viewed as an unconditional, eternal gift. Such gifts usually took the form of land and/or an enduring dynasty. See M. Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 184-203, for general discussion and some striking extra-biblical parallels. |