Psalms 2:7

2:7 The king says, ¹  “I will announce the Lord’s decree. He said to me: ² 

‘You are my son! ³  This very day I have become your father!

Hebrews 1:5-6

The Son Is Superior to Angels

1:5 For to which of the angels did God ⁴  ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? ⁵  And in another place ⁶  he says, ⁷  “I will be his father and he will be my son.” ⁸  1:6 But when he again brings ⁹  his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!” ¹⁰ 

Hebrews 5:5

5:5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, ¹¹  who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,” ¹² 

[2:7]  ¹ tn The words “the king says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. The speaker is the Lord’s chosen king.

[2:7]  ² tn Or “I will relate the decree. The Lord said to me” (in accordance with the Masoretic accentuation).

[2:7]  ³ sn ‘You are my son!’ The Davidic king was viewed as God’s “son” (see 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 89:26-27). The idiom reflects ancient Near Eastern adoption language associated with covenants of grant, by which a lord would reward a faithful subject by elevating him to special status, referred to as “sonship.” Like a son, the faithful subject received an “inheritance,” viewed as an unconditional, eternal gift. Such gifts usually took the form of land and/or an enduring dynasty. See M. Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 184-203, for general discussion and some striking extra-biblical parallels.

[1:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “I have begotten you.”

[1:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.

[1:5]  ⁷ tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.

[1:5]  ⁸ tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”

[1:6]  ⁹ tn Or “And again when he brings.” The translation adopted in the text looks forward to Christ’s second coming to earth. Some take “again” to introduce the quotation (as in 1:5) and understand this as Christ’s first coming, but this view does not fit well with Heb 2:7. Others understand it as his exaltation/ascension to heaven, but this takes the phrase “into the world” in an unlikely way.

[1:6]  ¹⁰ sn A quotation combining themes from Deut 32:43 and Ps 97:7.

[5:5]  ¹¹ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:5]  ¹² tn Grk “I have begotten you”; see Heb 1:5.