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Psalms 89:27

I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Birthright;   Church;   Covenant;   David;   Firstborn;   Government;   Jesus Continued;   Scofield Reference Index - Covenant;   Davidic;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Disobedience;   Failure;   Faith/faithfulness;   Forsaking;   Government;   Kindness;   Throne;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the King;   First Born, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ethan;   Firstborn;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Chastisement;   David;   King;   Samuel, books of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Colossians, Theology of;   Exaltation;   Psalms, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covenant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Father;   First-Born;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Firstborn;   King;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abba;   Covenant;   Judgment Day;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Children (Sons) of God;   Ethan;   Ezrahite;   Lovingkindness;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - First-Born First-Begotten ;   Guilt (2);   Prince;   Prince (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - King,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - First-Begotten;   Firstborn;   King;   Theocracy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eschatology;   Son of God;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I also shall make him My firstborn,The highest of the kings of the earth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I also shall make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I will make him my first borne: in higher state then kinges of the earth.
Darby Translation
And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
New King James Version
Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Literal Translation
And I will make Him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
Easy-to-Read Version
And I will make him my firstborn son. He will be the great king on earth.
World English Bible
I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
King James Version (1611)
Also I will make him my first borne: higher then the kings of the earth.
King James Version
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He shal call me: thou art my father, my God, and the strength of my saluacion.
Amplified Bible
"I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent), The highest of the kings of the earth.
American Standard Version
I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Bible in Basic English
And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.
Update Bible Version
I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also I will make him [my] first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
New English Translation
I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth's kings.
Contemporary English Version
"I have chosen David as my first-born son, and he will be the ruler of all kings on earth.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will call to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also I wil make him my first borne, higher then the Kings of the earth.
George Lamsa Translation
Also I will make him my first-born, and will exalt him over the kings of the earth.
Hebrew Names Version
I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the eretz.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He shall call unto Me: Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
New Life Bible
I will make him My first-born also, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.
English Revised Version
I also will make him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Berean Standard Bible
I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
New Revised Standard
I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, I, will appoint him, firstborn, Most High to the kings of the earth!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(88-28) And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.
Lexham English Bible
I will also make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
English Standard Version
And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
New American Standard Bible
"I will also make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
New Century Version
I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth.
Good News Translation
I will make him my first-born son, the greatest of all kings.
Christian Standard Bible®
I will also make him My firstborn, greatest of the kings of the earth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sette him the firste gendrid sone; hiyer than the kyngis of erthe.
Young's Literal Translation
I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.
Revised Standard Version
And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Contextual Overview

19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to your faithful people. You said, "I have raised up a warrior. I have selected him from the common people to be king. 20 I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil. 21 I will steady him with my hand; with my powerful arm I will make him strong. 22 His enemies will not defeat him, nor will the wicked overpower him. 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him. 24 My faithfulness and unfailing love will be with him, and by my authority he will grow in power. 25 I will extend his rule over the sea, his dominion over the rivers. 26 And he will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.' 27 I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth. 28 I will love him and be kind to him forever; my covenant with him will never end.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Also: Psalms 2:7, Romans 8:29, Colossians 1:15, Colossians 1:18

higher: Psalms 2:10-12, Psalms 72:11, Numbers 24:7, 2 Chronicles 1:12, 2 Chronicles 9:23, 2 Chronicles 9:24, Isaiah 49:7, Revelation 19:16, Revelation 21:24

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 1:37 - and make 1 Kings 10:23 - exceeded 2 Chronicles 9:22 - passed all the kings Psalms 2:6 - Yet Psalms 69:29 - let thy Matthew 28:18 - All Luke 20:14 - the heir John 1:34 - this Philippians 2:9 - given Hebrews 1:5 - I will Hebrews 12:23 - the firstborn Revelation 1:5 - and the prince

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also I will make him my firstborn,.... Or, "make him the firstborn"; make him great, as Jarchi interprets it; give him the blessing, the double portion of inheritance: so Christ is made most blessed for ever, and has all spiritual blessings in his hands; and is heir of all things, and his people joint-heirs with him. Christ is God's "firstborn", or "first begotten", Hebrews 1:6, being begotten by him, and of him; and his firstbegotten, though none begotten after him; as the first that opened the womb, under the law, was called the firstborn, though none were ever born after; and in such sense his first begotten, as that he is his only begotten: and he is the firstborn, with respect to creatures; "he is the firstborn of every creature"; Colossians 1:15, being begotten and brought forth before any creature was in being, Proverbs 8:22, and, with respect to the saints, "he is the firstborn among many brethren", Romans 8:29, they are of the same nature, and in the same family, and in which Christ is a son, and the firstborn; and in all things he has the preeminence; and he is also "the firstborn from the dead", or "the first begotten of the dead", Colossians 1:18 being raised first from thence by his own power, and to an immortal life; and is the first fruits of them that sleep, and the efficient and meritorious cause of the resurrection of life, and the pattern and exemplar of it: even him the Father promises to make "higher than the kings of the earth"; having a kingdom of a superior nature to theirs, and a more extensive and durable one; and even they themselves shall be subject to him; hence he is called "King of kings", Revelation 19:16. This will be when their kingdoms become his; when they shall fall down before him, and worship him, and bring their riches and glory into his kingdom, or the New Jerusalem church state,

Psalms 72:10. This passage is interpreted of the Messiah by the Jews f.

f In Shemot Rabba, s. 19. fol. 104. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Also I will make him my first-born - He shall be regarded and treated by me as the first-born son is in a family; that is, with distinguished favor and honor. Compare Genesis 27:19; Genesis 29:26; Exodus 4:22; Exodus 13:12; Jeremiah 31:9. See also the notes at Colossians 1:15, notes at Colossians 1:18.

Higher than the kings of the earth - Than other kings; the most exalted among kings and rulers. This was entirely fulfilled in David, who occupied a pre-eminence among princes and rulers which no other king did: a prominence alike in his own personal character and his reign; in his relation to God; and in the fact that he was the ancestor of the Messiah, the “King of kings, and Lord of lords” Revelation 19:16; “the prince of the kings of the earth,” Revelation 1:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 89:27. I will make him my first-born — I will deal with him as a father by his first-born son, to whom a double portion of possessions and honours belong. First-born is not always to be understood literally in Scripture. It often signifies simply a well-beloved, or best-beloved son; one preferred to all the rest, and distinguished by some eminent prerogative. Thus God calls Israel his son, his first-born, Exodus 4:22. See also Ecclus 36:12. And even Ephraim is called God's first-born, Jeremiah 31:9. In the same sense it is sometimes applied even to Jesus Christ himself, to signify his supereminent dignity; not the eternal Sonship of his Divine nature, as inveterate prejudice and superficial thinking have supposed.


 
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