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# Connecting Statement:
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The believers complete their quotation from King David in the Psalms that they began in [Acts 4:25](../04/25.md).
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# The kings of the earth set themselves together, and the rulers gathered together against the Lord
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These two lines mean basically the same thing. The two lines emphasize the combined effort of the earth's rulers to oppose God. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# set themselves together ... gathered together
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These two phrases mean that they joined their armies together to fight a battle. Alternate translation: "set their armies together ... gathered their troops together" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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# against the Lord, and against his Christ
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Here the word "Lord" refers to God. In the Psalms, the word "Christ" refers to the Messiah or God's anointed one.
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