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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 89:27

He will call to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.'

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

Christian Standard Bible®
I will also make him my firstborn,greatest of the kings of the earth.
Hebrew Names Version
I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the eretz.
King James Version
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
English Standard Version
And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
New Century Version
I will make him my firstborn son, the greatest king on earth.
New English Translation
I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth's kings.
Amplified Bible
"I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent), 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.
World English Bible
I will also appoint him my firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Also I wil make him my first borne, higher then the Kings of the earth.
Legacy Standard Bible
I also shall 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.
Contemporary English Version
"I have chosen David as my first-born son, and he will be the ruler of all kings on earth.
Darby Translation
And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of 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.
George Lamsa Translation
Also I will make him my first-born, and will exalt him over the kings of the earth.
Good News Translation
I will make him my first-born son, the greatest of all kings.
Lexham English Bible
I will also make him the 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.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He shal call me: thou art my father, my God, and the strength of my saluacion.
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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He shall call unto Me: Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
King James Version (1611)
Also I will make him my first borne: higher then 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.
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal sette him the firste gendrid sone; hiyer than the kyngis of erthe.
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 King James Version
Also I will make him My firstborn, The highest of the kings of the earth.
New Living Translation
I will make him my firstborn son, the mightiest king on earth.
New Life Bible
I will make him My first-born also, 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.
Revised Standard Version
And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Young's Literal Translation
I also first-born do appoint him, 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.

Contextual Overview

19 for our shield comes from Adonai — our king is from the Holy One of Isra'el. 20 There was a time when you spoke in a vision; you declared to your loyal [prophets], "I have given help to a warrior, I have raised up someone chosen from the people. 21 I have found David my servant and anointed him with my holy oil. 22 My hand will always be with him, and my arm will give him strength. 23 No enemy will outwit him, no wicked man overcome him. 24 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him. 25 My faithfulness and grace will be with him; through my name his power will grow. 26 I will put his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. 27 He will call to me, ‘You are my father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.' 28 I will give him the position of firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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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