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Verse Psalms 83:8. _ASSUR ALSO IS JOINED_] The _Ammonites_ might have
got those auxiliaries from beyond the Euphrates, against Jehosphaphat,
as formerly they were brought against David. See 2 Samuel 1...
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ASSUR ALSO IS JOINED WITH THEM - Assyria. Assyria was on the northeast
of Palestine. The conspirators had secured, it seems, the aid of this
powerful kingdom, and they felt confident of success.
THEY...
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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,...
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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...
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CHILDREN. sons.
SELAH. Connecting these two things together, the former being that
which calls forth the prayer: and connecting the _past_ confederacy
with the future one of the "ten kingdoms" and th...
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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...
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_Assur_ Assyria. The mention of Assyria as an auxiliary of Moab and
Ammon seems to imply that it was not yet a leading power, which would
fall in with an early date for the Psalm. Assyria is not known...
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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...
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Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah.
ASSUR ALSO IS JOINED WITH THEM: THEY HAVE HOLPEN THE CHILDREN OF LOT
- literally, 'they (i:e., not merely Assur, but all...
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83:8 Asshur (g-1) Assyria....
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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...
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ASSUR] RV 'Assyria.' This empire did not come into close contact with
Israel till after the time of Jehoshaphat. After the fall of Assyria
the name was used generally for the region of the East, even...
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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...
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(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....
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ASSUR. — For the more usual _Ashur,_ Assyria. Some, however, think
the Syria is here intended, that name being, in the view of the Greek
writers, a corruption of Assyria. (“The Greeks call them Syrian...
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_[Psalms 83:9]_ גַּם ־אַ֭שּׁוּר נִלְוָ֣ה
עִמָּ֑ם הָ֤י֥וּ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children (g) of
Lot. Selah.
(g) The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that
they provoked these other nations to fight again...
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_Blessing. Abundance of water, and other necessaries, (2 Corinthians
ix. 6.) as well as (Haydock) spiritual graces, which help those who
continue in the true Church to arrive at the vision of God.
(Wo...
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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...
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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...
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ASSUR ALSO IS JOINED WITH THEM,.... Before mentioned, or Assyria,
though at so great a distance from Israel, and unprovoked by them:
according to R. Joseph Kimchi, the sense is, that the Assyrians joi...
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Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah.
Ver. 8. _Assur also is joined with them_] The Chaldee paraphraseth,
Sennacherib, also the king of Asshur, &c. So doth the...
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_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...
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THEY HAVE HOLPEN THE CHILDREN OF LOT:
_ Heb._ they have been an arm to the children of Lot...
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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...
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IS JOINED WITH THEM in their counsels, and possibly with some of their
forces, though not so openly and powerfully as afterwards. THE
CHILDREN OF LOT; Moab and Ammon, who were the principal parties in...
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Psalms 83:8 Assyria H804 joined H3867 (H8738) helped H2220 children
H1121 Lot H3876 Selah H5542
Assur - Assur is the same in the original as
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Deuteronomy 2:9; Genesis 10:11; Genesis 19:37; Genesis 19:38; Genes
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Of Lot — Moab and Ammon....