Psalms 2:8 meaning and explanation
Ask Me, and I will make the nations Your inheritance, the ends of the earth Your possession.
Psalms 2:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Psalm 2 is a royal psalm, and here the anointed king of Israel reports what the LORD promised him at his enthronement on Zion. In the ancient Near East a king's inheritance meant the land and peoples he ruled, so the promise stretches Israel's royal ideal to its limit: not Israel alone but the ends of the earth.
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