Begotten a King

Psalm 2 may be divided into two parts. In verses 1-6 the psalmist assumes the viewpoint of an observer, and speaks in the third person of the things which he has witnessed. The heathen raged, the people imagined a vain thing, the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers took counsel together, against Jehovah and His anointed, determined to overthrow them. But the Lord laughed in derision, and said to them in His wrath, “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” Certainly it is...