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Psalm 2:6

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

3 places · 3 kinds of echo

The source

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Rev 14:1–5

The messianic king/anointed installed 'on Zion, my holy hill' underlies the Lamb standing on Mount Zion as eschatological gathering point; thematic coherence and recurrence (Ps 2 cited Rev 2:27; 12:5; 19:15). Hebrew and LXX agree on Zion as the locus of enthronement.

High confidence

Echo1

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

John 19:19-22 ?

The inscription proclaiming Jesus 'King of the Jews,' published in three languages, ironically broadcasts the enthronement of God's king ('I have set my king on Zion'). Faint; the royal-psalm coloring is thematic rather than verbal.

Low confidence

Figural1

A typological pattern re-read in a later text — no verbal quotation, high figural coherence.

John 18:33-38 ?

Pilate's interrogation of Jesus' kingship before the nations replays the royal psalm in which the LORD installs his anointed king on Zion while rulers conspire against him. The king-versus-the-rulers-of-the-earth frame gives Coherence with the Barabbas/Pilate scene, casting Jesus as the Messiah-king the nations reject.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 2
Psalm 2:1-2 3Psalm 2:1 2Psalm 2:2 13Psalm 2:7 23Psalm 2:8 2Psalm 2:9 3Psalm 2:11 3