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Psalm 2:8

The New Testament’s use of Psalm

2 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

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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.

Heb 1:1–4

‘Whom he appointed heir of all things’ (v. 2) sounds the inheritance grant of Ps 2:8 — the same psalm quoted outright at 1:5. Recurrence (Hays): Ps 2 is demonstrably available and re-used, so the inheritance language is heard as its anticipatory echo.

Medium confidence

Echo1

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

Matt 28:16-20

'Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage and the ends of the earth your possession' — the enthroned royal Son granted the nations. The risen Son's authority over all and claim to all nations echoes this messianic enthronement psalm.

Medium confidence
Elsewhere in Psalm 2
Psalm 2:1-2 3Psalm 2:1 2Psalm 2:2 13Psalm 2:6 3Psalm 2:7 23Psalm 2:9 3Psalm 2:11 3