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Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
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David's Lord is Jesus
Commentators emphasize that this verse features God the Father ("Jehovah") speaking to a second figure David calls "my Lord" ("Adonai"). They argue this figure must be the Messiah, Jesus Christ, because King David would not call any mere human descendant his superior. This points to Christ's divine nature and supreme authority, a truth Jesus himself highlighted in the New Testament.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Lord said unto my Lord - In the Hebrew, “Spoke Jehovah to my Lord.” The word יהוה Yahweh is the incommunicabl…
19th Century
Anglican
Baptist
The LORD said to my Lord.
Or Jehovah said to my Adonai.
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16th Century
Protestant
Jehovah said to my Lord. What is stated here might to some extent be applied to the person of David, since he neither ascended the royal t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The Lord said unto my Lord The Targum is,
``the Lord said in his Word.''
Galatinus F17 says…
Glorious things are spoken here of Christ. Not only would he be superior to all the kings of the earth, but he then existed in glory as the eternal…
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