Who have said, Let us take for ourselves in possession
The habitations (or, pastures) of God.
Whorefers to the present enemies of Israel, not to the Midianites. God's habitations or pastures are the land which He has given to His people Israel. Cp. 2 Chronicles 20:11. The LXX reads altar, or according to another reading, sanctuary.
Verse Psalms 83:12. _LET US TAKE TO OURSELVES THE HOUSES OF GOD IN_ _POSSESSION._] Nearly the words spoken by the confederates when they came to attack Jehoshaphat. _They come_ (says the king in addr...
WHO SAID, LET US TAKE TO OURSELVES THE HOUSES OF GOD IN POSSESSION - The houses of God here mean the habitations of God, or the places where he dwelt among the people. As there was but one ark, one ta...
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...
HOUSES. pleasant pastures. Hebrew. _ne'oth_ (plural) Same word as in Psalms 23:2; Psalms 65:12. POSSESSION. inheritance. Compare 2 Chronicles 20:11....
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...
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. WHO SAID, LET US TAKE TO OURSELVES THE HOUSES OF GOD IN POSSESSION - i:e., Canaan given by God Himself to Israel. Herein lay the...
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...
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...
(9-12) For the historical allusion see references in margin. The splendid victories of Barak and Gideon were the constant theme of poets and prophets when trying to encourage their own generation by t...
HOUSES. — Rather, _pastures._ (See Psalms 79:7.)...
_[Psalms 83:13]_ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָ֭מְרוּ נִ֣ירֲשָׁה לָּ֑נוּ אֵ֝֗ת...
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...
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the (k) houses of God in possession. (k) That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there he dwells among them....
Truth. He is merciful, and always performs what he has promised: (Menochius) whereas sinners are noted for cruelty and deceit. Hebrew, "the Lord God is a sun and shield." (Haydock) --- This sense is v...
There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith, in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come,...
12._Who have said, Let us take in possession for ourselves the habitations of God. _These heathen enemies are again accused of treason against the King of heaven, in seizing upon his heritage like law...
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...
WHO SAID,.... Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named Psalms 83:6, to whom the like things are wished as to the Midianites and others, because...
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. Ver. 12. _Let us take to ourselves the houses of God_] Covetous impropriators and oppressors have learned this language. _Possideba...
_Which perished at En-dor_ Either, 1st, The Midianites; or rather, Jabin and Sisera, who were overthrown at Taanach and Megiddo, (Judges 5:19,) nigh unto which places was this En-dor, as appears from...
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...
who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession, they had intended to overthrow the true religion....
9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their en...
THE HOUSES OF GOD; the houses and lands of the Israelites, which their God, as they pretend, gave them in Canaan, to which they have no rightful title; for that we see was formerly objected by the Amm...
Psalms 83:12 said H559 (H8804) pastures H4999 God H430 possession H3423 (H8799) Psalms 83:4,
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:9 The basic request is that these enemies would utterly fail in their scheme. The ultimate reason for Israel’s existence is to serve God’s purpose of restoring true worship and...
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,...
2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalms 74:7; Psalms 74:8; Psalms 83:4...