# David (Psalm 2:7)

[Psalm 2:7](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+2\&version=RSV):&#x20;

> "I will proclaim the LORD’s decree: He said to me, <mark style="color:red;">**'You are my son; today I have become your father.'"**</mark>

[Psalm 89](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+89\&version=RSV):

> 19 Of old thou didst speak in a vision\
> &#x20;   to thy faithful one, and say:\
> “I have set the crown\[[e](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+89\&version=RSV#fen-RSV-15345e)] upon one who is mighty,\
> &#x20;   I have exalted one chosen from the people.\
> 20 <mark style="color:red;">I have found David, my servant;</mark>\
> &#x20;   <mark style="color:red;">with my holy oil I have anointed him</mark>;\
> 21 so that my hand shall ever abide with him,\
> &#x20;   my arm also shall strengthen him.\
> 22 The enemy shall not outwit him,\
> &#x20;   the wicked shall not humble him.\
> 23 I will crush his foes before him\
> &#x20;   and strike down those who hate him.\
> 24 <mark style="color:red;">My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,</mark>\
> &#x20;   <mark style="color:red;">and in my name shall his horn be exalted.</mark>\
> 25 I will set his hand on the sea\
> &#x20;   and his right hand on the rivers.\
> 26 <mark style="color:red;">He shall cry to me, ‘Thou art my Father</mark>,\
> &#x20;   my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’\
> 27 <mark style="color:red;">And I will make him the first-born,</mark>\
> &#x20;   <mark style="color:red;">the highest of the kings of the earth.</mark>

[Psalm 45:6-7:](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+45+\&version=RSV)

> Your divine throne\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+45+\&version=RSV#fen-RSV-14603b)], <mark style="color:red;">O God,</mark> endures for ever and ever.\
> &#x20;   Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;\
> 7     you love righteousness and hate wickedness.\
> <mark style="color:red;">Therefore God, your God, has anointed you</mark>\
> &#x20;   with the oil of gladness above your fellows;\
> 8     your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.\
> From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;\
> 9     daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;\
> &#x20;   at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

\*[How Jesus Became God, p. 79](https://archive.org/details/HowJesusBecameGodTheExaltBartD/page/n43/mode/2up):

> It is clear that the person addressed as “O God” (Elohim) is not God Almighty but the king, because of what is said later: God Almighty is the king’s own God and has “anointed” him with oil — the standard act of the king’s coronation ceremony in ancient Israel. And so God has both anointed and exalted the king above all others, even to a level of deity. The king is in some sense God. Not equal with God Almighty, obviously (since the differentiation is made clearly, even here), but God nonetheless.

[Mark 12:](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+12\&version=RSV)

> 35 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David? 36 <mark style="color:red;">David himself, inspired by\[</mark>[<mark style="color:red;">c</mark>](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+12\&version=RSV#fen-RSV-24700c) <mark style="color:red;">Or</mark> <mark style="color:red;"></mark>_<mark style="color:red;">himself, in</mark>_<mark style="color:red;">] the Holy Spirit</mark>, declared,
>
> ‘<mark style="color:red;">The Lord said to my Lord</mark>,\
> Sit at my right hand,\
> till I put thy enemies under thy feet.’
>
> 37 David himself calls him Lord; so how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.

[Psalm 110:](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms+110+\&version=RSV)

> 1 <mark style="color:red;">The Lord says to my lord</mark>: “Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies your footstool.”
