Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 83:7
Gebal — An Arabian people so called by ancient writers dwelling in the southern border of Canaan, where most of the people here mentioned had their abode.
Gebal — An Arabian people so called by ancient writers dwelling in the southern border of Canaan, where most of the people here mentioned had their abode.
Verse Psalms 83:7. _GEBAL_] The _Giblites_, who were probably the persons here designed, were a tribe of the ancient inhabitants of the land of Canaan, and are mentioned as unconquered at the death o...
GEBAL - The Gebal here referred to was probably the same as Gebalene, the mountainous tract inhabited by the Edomites, extending from the Dead Sea southward toward Petra, and still called by the Arabs...
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...
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 Philistines_ Lit. Philistia. In Amos 1:6 ff., Amos 1:9 ff., Philistia and Tyre are censured for surrendering Israelite captives to Edom, which in its turn (Psalms 83:11) is condemned for unbrothe...
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...
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; GEBAL, AND AMMON, AND AMALEK. Gebal was an Idumean clan, on the right of Ammon, as Amalek was on the left of Ammon, and e...
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...
AMALEK] a tribe of the desert S. of Palestine. GEBAL] a district of Edom, S. of the Dead Sea. THE PHILISTINES] RV 'Philistia,' between Palestine and the Mediterranean on the SW. TYRE] a city and kin...
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...
(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....
GEBAL. — If this is a noun, as generally supposed, and as printed in the text, we must take it as a synonym of Edom (the _Gebalene_ of Eusebius). The Gebal of Ezekiel 27:9 is not to be thought of; but...
_[Psalms 83:8]_ גְּבָ֣ל וְ֭ עַמֹּון וַ עֲמָלֵ֑ק...
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...
_Tears. Protestants, "Baca." Marginal note, "of mulberry-trees," near Jerusalem, Judges ii. 5., and 1 Kings v. 23. (Haydock) --- It was perhaps used proverbially for any dry place. The Lord had promis...
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...
GEBAL,.... Gubleans, or Gebalites, as the Targum; the same with Giblites, Joshua 23:5, or men of Gebal, Ezekiel 27:9 the same with Byblus: these dwelt in Phoenicia, near Tyre, where Pliny g makes ment...
_Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;_ Ver. 7. _Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek_] Sic enarrat et enumerat inimicos decem conglobatos, Ezekiel 27:9. Answerable wher...
_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...
Gebal, the northern part of the mountains of Seir and therefore pertaining to Edom, AND AMMON, Israel's ancient enemy east of Gilead, AND AMALEK, the last remnants of the desert tribe living within th...
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...
GEBAL; either, 1. The Giblites or Gebalites, dwelling near Zidon, of whom 1 KINGS 5:18 EZEKIEL 27:9. Or, 2. An Arabian people, so called by ancient writers, dwelling in the southern border of Canaan,...
Psalms 83:7 Gebal H1381 Ammon H5983 Amalek H6002 Philistia H6429 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Tyre H6865 Gebal -...
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,...
Ezekiel 27:9; Joshua 13:5...