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“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 2:6 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
  • BSB “I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
  • NKJV “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.”
  • NASB “But as for Me, I have installed My King Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”
  • NLT For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain.”

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
  • Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
  • Eph 1:22He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
  • Isa 9:6–7For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  • Ps 48:1–2A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
  • Ps 110:1–2A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
  • Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
  • Ps 45:6Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
  • Dan 7:13–14I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
  • Acts 5:30–31The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
  • Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
  • Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
  • Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
  • Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
  • Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
  • Ps 89:36–37His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
  • Acts 2:34–36For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 2:6 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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