Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 83:6
The tabernacles — The people dwelling in them. Ishmaelites — Some of the posterity of Ishmael, called by their father's name, as others of them are supposed to be called Hagarens from their grandmother Hagar.
The tabernacles — The people dwelling in them. Ishmaelites — Some of the posterity of Ishmael, called by their father's name, as others of them are supposed to be called Hagarens from their grandmother Hagar.
Verse Psalms 83:6. _THE TABERNACLES OF EDOM_] The _tents_ of these different people are seen in the grand encampment. _Tents_ are probably mentioned because it seas the custom of some of these people...
THE TABERNACLES OF EDOM - The tents of Edom; meaning here, the dwellers in those tents, that is, the Edomites. The word tabernacles or tents does not necessarily imply that the nation then led a wande...
Psalms 83 The Final Enemies Overthrown _ 1. The enemies in confederacy (Psalms 83:1)_ 2. Their complete defeat and fate (Psalms 83:9) Elsewhere in prophecy we read of the confederacies of nations,...
LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were fo...
TABERNACLES. tents. Hebrew. _'ohel_. See App-40. EDOM. Note the tenfold confederation of enemies in verses: Psalms 83:6, followed by the sevenfold destruction in verses: Psalms 83:10. the two making t...
An enumeration of the confederate peoples. From the southeast come the Edomites, who inhabited the mountainous region between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Akaba, and the Ishmaelites, who roamed over t...
_The tabernacles_&c. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, i.e. the nomadic Edomites and Ishmaelites who dwell in tents. Cp. Habakkuk 3:7. _of Moab_ Omit _of_....
THE TABERNACLES OF EDOM, &C.— They are called the _tabernacles_ of the Edomites, from the custom of these Arabians to live in tents all the year long; encamping sometimes in one place, and sometimes i...
PSALMS 83 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Appeal to God for Deliverance from an Impending Invasion. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 83:1-4, Israel's Enemies described as the Enemies of Godtheir Destructive Designs...
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; THE TABERNACLES OF EDOM, AND THE ISHMAELITES; OF MOAB, AND THE HAGARENES. As the Edomites were not a wandering people, 'ten...
This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel (Psalms 83:2). A list of the allies is given (Psalms 83:6). The Psalmist appeals to God to in...
Tabernacles] RV 'tents.' ISHMAELITES] wandering desert tribes. HAGARENES] or Hagrites, a nomadic tribe in the region E. of Gilead (1 Chronicles 5:10)....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ ENEMIES ALL ROUND US! PSALMS 83 Jesus said, "I am sending you like sheep into a group of wolves. So, be as clever as snakes but, like the dove, do not hurt anybod...
THE TABERNACLES — _i.e.,_ the tents of the nomad tribes. HAGARENES. — A tribe mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5:10; 1 Chronicles 5:19 (Hagarites), where see Note....
(6-8) In the enumeration of the confederate powers, the psalmist seems to follow a geographical order. He first glances southwards and eastwards, then turns to the west, and, finally, to the north....
_[Psalms 83:7]_ אָהֳלֵ֣י אֱ֭דֹום וְ יִשְׁמְעֵאלִ֗ים מֹואָ֥ב...
Psalms 83:1 THIS psalm is a cry for help against a world in arms. The failure of all attempts to point to a period when all the allies here represented as confederate against Israel were or could have...
“THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH” Psalms 83:1 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1, where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Jahaziel, one of...
The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution, and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the a...
In his heart, he disposed to ascend by steps, &c., ascensiones in corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascends toward the eternal temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart...
All confederacies are to the same purport, where God's grace doth not influence the heart. And what a host of them are formed against the Israel of God? And let the Reader remark, who they are that jo...
Psalms 83 requires only to call attention to its subject. It is the last confederacy of the nations surrounding Canaan, with Assur helping them. At the close of the psalm, though the cry be to God as...
THE TABERNACLES OF EDOM, c] Or the Idumeans, as the Targum the posterity of Esau, who, with the rest that joined with them, hereafter mentioned, and made the confederate army, brought their tents with...
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Ver. 6. _The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, &c._] _Exercitu ex variis gentibus conflato,_ at odds among themselves...
_The tabernacles of Edom_ Called the children of _Seir, 2 Chronicles 20_. He says _the tabernacles of Edom_, from the custom of these Arabians to live in tents all the year long; encamping sometimes i...
A PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH. A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter, picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy destr...
the tabernacles of Edom, that is, all the nomadic tribes belonging to this nation, AND THE ISHMAELITES; OF MOAB AND THE HAGARENES, who roamed from the Persian Gulf to the desert country east of Gilead...
1-8 Sometimes God seems not to be concerned at the unjust treatment of his people. But then we may call upon him, as the psalmist here. All wicked people are God's enemies, especially wicked persecut...
THE TABERNACLES, put for the people dwelling in them, as JOB 12:6 PROVERBS 14:11 HABAKKUK 3:7. EDOM; called _the children of Seir_, 2CH 20. _The Ishmaelites_; some of the posterity of Ishmael, called...
Psalms 83:6 tents H168 Edom H123 Ishmaelites H3459 Moab H4124 Hagrites H1905 Edom - 2 Chronicles 20:1,...
This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished side...
CONTENTS: An appeal to God's jealousy for His cause and prayer for defeat of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Sisera, Zeeb, Jabin, Oreb. CONCLUSION: We cannot but be zealous against those who federat...
This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the ni...
_Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God._ AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN I. A lamentable social scene (Psalms 83:2). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility both to...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:1. This is a community lament, responding to a situation in which God’s people are threatened by Gentile enemies (vv. Psalms 83:6) who aim
INTRODUCTION This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit of...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the surrounding nations, having for its object the destructi...
Psa 83:1-18 is a psalm where he is speaking out of the calamities that the enemies have brought upon them and asking for God's deliverance as He had in their past history. Asking God to work, "O God,...
1 Chronicles 5:10; 1 Chronicles 5:19; 1 Chronicles 5:20; 2 Chronicles 20:1;...