Psalms 83 - Introduction

A.M. 3112. B.C. 892.

The occasion of this Psalm seems to have been a dangerous conspiracy, and attempt of divers nations against Israel or Judah. Probably it was that which is recorded 2 Chronicles 20., wherein all the people here named might be engaged, though all of them be not there mentioned; it being usual in the sacred historians for the latter to record some particulars which the former omitted. Or the Psalm may have a more general respect unto the several enterprises and combinations of all these people against them, some at one time and some at another. We have here,

(1,) A solemn remonstrance to God, concerning the malicious designs of Israel's enemies, Psalms 83:1.

(2,) A prayer that God would defeat them, preserve his church, and glorify himself in the world, Psalms 83:9.