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Why do the nations rage
Psalm 2 asks why kings and rulers gather against the LORD and His Anointed. The Jerusalem church prayed those words and named Herod, Pilate, the Gentiles, and Israel gathered against Jesus.
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New TestamentActs 4:25-26Open this recordRead the earlier witness
1Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? 2The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, Read the later witness
25You 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? 26The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed one.’ Why FaithGraph draws this line
Acts 4:25-26 quotes Psalms 2:1-2.
The praying church quotes the psalm about rulers gathering against the LORD's Anointed.
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