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Allusion
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Acts 4:25-26BSB
You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’
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Psalms 2:1-2BSB
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
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Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
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So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
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Psalms 89:3BSB
You said, "I have made a covenant with My chosen one, I have sworn to David My servant:
The praying church quotes Psalm 2:1-2 in full — "Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth took their stand... against the Lord and against His Anointed" — and reads it as freshly fulfilled: Herod and Pilate, Gentiles and Israel, gathered against "Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed" (v27). The Davidic background sharpens the point: David is "the servant whom I chose" (1 Kgs 11:34), the one with whom God swore an everlasting covenant (Ps 89:3). The royal type escalates to its antitype — the true Anointed King against whom the nations rage. Christ-terminus: yet the raging accomplishes only "whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to take place" (v28). The plot that crucified the King enthroned Him; the cross is the throne, and the church prays in the confidence that the rebellion of the nations serves the reign of the risen Messiah.