men: Israel.
JEHOVAH. One of three places where, in Authorized Version, this name is transliterated and printed in large capital letters (small in Revised Version) See App-48. Compare Exodus 6:3 and Isaiah 26:4.
MOST HIGH. Hebrew. Elyon. App-4.
Verse Psalms 83:18. _THAT MEN MAY KNOW_] That they may acknowledge, and be converted to thee. Here is no _malice_; all is _self-defence_. ANALYSIS OF THE EIGHTY-THIRD PSALM This Psalm divides itself...
THAT MEN MAY KNOW - That all people may be impressed with the belief that thou art the true and only God. This was the design and aim of the prayer in the psalm. It was that there might be such a mani...
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...
Renewed prayer for the dispersion and destruction of the enemy expressed by figures from nature. The final end and object of all is that they may acknowledge Jehovah to be supreme....
That they may know that thou, whose name is JEHOVAH, even thou alone, Art the Most High over all the earth. The primary object of chastisement is conversion (Psalms 83:16); but if they will not ackn...
THAT THOU, WHOSE NAME ALONE, &C.— _That thou, whose name is Jehovah, art alone the Most High,_ &c. Mudge. REFLECTIONS.—The church on earth is ever militant; and would soon be crushed, were it not for...
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...
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. -Second part of the second main division. Prayer inspired by God for the extinction of the foe by the fiery storm of God. Verse 13...
83:18 Jehovah, (b-11) Or 'who alone hast the name Jehovah.' High (c-15) Heb. _ Elyon_ . see Genesis 14:19 , and note the omission here of 'possessor of heavens,' cf. Deuteronomy 32:8 ....
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...
_[Psalms 83:19]_ וְֽ יֵדְע֗וּ כִּֽי ־אַתָּ֬ה שִׁמְךָ֣...
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...
That [men] may (n) know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. (n) Though they do not believe, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resis...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! observe how implacable is the enmity of Satan against Christ's hidden ones: and what persecutions, from a variety of quarters, he will stir up, in order to draw them from God. But...
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,...
18._And let them know that thou art, thy name Jehovah. _It is not the saving knowledge of God which is here spoken of, but that acknowledgement of him which his irresistible power extorts from the wic...
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...
THAT MEN MAY KNOW THAT THOU, WHOSE NAME ALONE IS JEHOVAH,.... Or, "that thou, thy name alone is Jehovah" p, a self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I AM, the immutable God; for thi...
That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth. Ver. 18. _That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah_] The essentiator, Isaiah 44:6...
_Fill, &c., that they may seek thy name_ That, being disappointed of their hopes, and discerning the impotence of their idols, they may own and worship thee as the only true God. _Let them be put to s...
that men may know that Thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, the God of revelation, ART THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH, admitted as such either in fear or in faith. Cf Isaiah 37:16; 2 Kings 19:19. That...
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...
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...
THAT MEN MAY KNOW, or _that they may know_, to wit, by costly experience, even by their own ruin, what they would not know by information for their own good, _that thou art the Most High_, the most hi...
Psalms 83:18 know H3045 (H8799) name H8034 LORD H3068 High H5945 earth H776 That men - Psalms 9
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...
_That men may know that Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth._ THE INNER PROOFS OF GOD The age in which we live is frequently characterized as an age of unbelief. C...
_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,...
1 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 19:19; Daniel 4:25; Daniel 4:32; Exodus 6:3;...