1. Hebrews 2:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

To what do the words "crowned him with glory and honor" refer?

Hebrews 2:7 (ESV)

7 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Psalm 8:5 (ESV)

5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

The words “crowned him with glory and honor” refer in Psalm 8:5 to the fact that so puny a man yet occupies such a royal position in God’s creation. God created man to have him exercise government over the world.1