Text: Psalm 72:8 — "May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth" (cf. v. 19: "may all the earth be filled with His glory")
OT Text Referred to: Genesis 1:28
Source: Anchor-Text Network — Genesis 1:28 (Beale, The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New Testament; Schnittjer, Old Testament Use of Old Testament)
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Redemptive-Historical Progression, Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Gen 1:28 — The Adamic Commission
Significance: Genesis 1:28 issues two clauses that Psalm 72 carries into the royal tradition: dominion ("rule… over every creature") and filling the earth. The Solomonic prayer echoes the dominion clause in cosmic scope — "May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth" (v. 8) — applying the Adamic mandate to the messianic Davidic king, the appointed vehicle through whom the commission is to be exercised. The psalm then closes with the fill-the-earth clause transposed into doxology: "may all the earth be filled with His glory" (v. 19). Where Adam was to fill the earth with image-bearers reflecting God's glory, the royal psalm reaches the commission's true telos — a worldwide kingdom in which creation itself is filled with the glory of God. The dominion of Gen 1:28, lost by the first Adam and entrusted to the Davidic line, is consummated in Christ the Last Adam, to whom all authority in heaven and on earth is given (Matt 28:18) and under whose feet all things are placed (1 Cor 15:25-27).