Psalms 83:8

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 Syrians, but the Barbarians Assyrians.” — Herod, vii., 63.) And even if etymologically incorrect, the error of the Greeks may have been consciously or unconsciously shared by the Jews, and the kingdom of the Seleucidæ be honoured by the name of the grander and more ancient power.

They have holpen. — See margin. And for the importance of the form of the statement see Introduction.

Children of Lot. — Ammon and Moab, who thus appear as the leaders of the confederacy.