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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Psalm 83

Chapter 83

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

A. M. 3416. B.C. 588. (Title.) A song. Some refer this Psalm to the confederacy against Jehoshaphat, and others to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar

of Asaph

or, for Asaph.

Keep

28:1 35:22 44:23 50:3 109:1,2

be not

Isaiah 42:14

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

For, lo

2:1,2 74:4,23 2 Kings 19:28 Isaiah 37:29 Jeremiah 1:19 Matthew 27:24 Acts 4:25-27 16:22 17:5 19:28-41 21:30 22:22 23:10

that hate

81:15

lifted

75:4,5 93:3 Isaiah 37:23 Daniel 5:20-23

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They

10:9 56:6 64:2 1 Samuel 13:19 Isaiah 7:6,7 Luke 20:20-23

thy hidden

27:5 31:20 91:1 Colossians 3:3

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Exodus 1:10 Esther 3:6-9 Proverbs 1:12 Jeremiah 11:19 31:36 Daniel 7:25 Matthew 27:62-66 Acts 4:17 9:1,2

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

For

2:2 Proverbs 21:30 Isaiah 7:5-7 8:9,10 John 11:47-53 Acts 23:12,13 Revelation 17:13 19:19

consent

Heb. heart. they are.

Joshua 10:3-5 2 Samuel 10:6-8 Isaiah 7:2

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

The tabernacles

Tents are mentioned because it was the custom of these people, particularly the Ishmaelites, to live a migratory or wandering life; encamping sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, as they found convenience for themselves and cattle; a custom retained by their descendants to the present day.

Edom

2 Chronicles 20:1,10,11

Hagarenes

Genesis 25:12-18 1 Chronicles 5:10,19,20

Hagarites

Verse 7

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Gebal

Joshua 13:5 Ezekiel 27:9

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Assur

Assur is the same in the original as Asshur, or Assyria.

Genesis 10:11

Asshur

Genesis 25:3

holpen

Heb. been an arm to.

Isaiah 33:2

the children

Genesis 19:37,38 Deuteronomy 2:9

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

as unto

Numbers 31:7,8 Judges 7:22-25 Isaiah 9:4 10:26

as to Sisera

Judges 4:15-24

of Kison

The variations of Kison and Kishon only exists in the translation; the original being uniformly Kishon.

Judges 5:21

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Endor

Joshua 17:11 1 Samuel 28:7

as dung

2 Kings 9:37 Jeremiah 8:2 16:4 Zephaniah 1:17

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

Oreb

Judges 7:25

Zebah

Judges 8:12-21

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

4 74:7,8 2 Chronicles 20:11

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

O my

22:1 44:4 74:11,12

like

Isaiah 17:12-14

as the

35:5 68:1,2 Exodus 15:7 Job 13:25 21:18 Isaiah 40:24 41:2 Jeremiah 13:24 Matthew 3:12

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

As the fire

Isaiah 30:33 33:11,12 64:1,2 Ezekiel 20:47,48 Malachi 4:1

the flame

Deuteronomy 32:22 Nahum 1:6,10

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

11:6 50:3 58:9 Job 9:17 27:20-23 Isaiah 28:17 30:30 Ezekiel 13:11-14 Matthew 7:27 Hebrews 12:18

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

6:10 9:19,20 34:5

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

35:4,26 40:14,15 109:29

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

That men

9:16 59:13 1 Kings 18:37 2 Kings 19:19 Isaiah 5:16 Jeremiah 16:21 Ezekiel 30:19 Ezekiel 38:23

whose

Genesis 22:14 Exodus 6:3 Isaiah 42:8

the most

92:8 Isaiah 54:5 Daniel 4:25,32 Micah 4:13 Zechariah 4:14