Psalm 83:11-12 NASB,NIV

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 83:9-12

Asaph prayed that God would deliver His people, as He had in the past during the Judges Period. God had destroyed the Midianites with Gideon’s small band of soldiers (Judges 7-8). Oreb and Zeeb were the Midianite commanders (Judges 7:25), and Zebah and Zalmunna were the Midianite kings (Judges 8:5-6; Judges 8:12; Judges 8:18). God defeated the Canaanite coalition near the Kishon River, and the town of Endor, through Deborah and Barak (Judges 4). Sisera was the Canaanite commander and Jabin the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 83:9-18

2. The desire for deliverance 83:9-18 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:1-18

This Ps. describes a confederacy of God’s enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel (Psalms 83:2-5). A list of the allies is given (Psalms 83:6-8). The Psalmist appeals to God to interpose (Psalms 83:1), and to deal with these hostile nations as He dealt with the Midianites (Judges 6-8) and the Canaanites (Judges 4, 5) of old (Psalms 83:9-12). Psalms 83:13-18 continue the prayer for their overthrow, in order that they may seek and acknowledge the true God. No historical... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 83:9-12

(9-12) For the historical allusion see references in margin. The splendid victories of Barak and Gideon were the constant theme of poets and prophets when trying to encourage their own generation by the examples of the past. (See Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:26; Habakkuk 3:7.) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 83:12

(12) Houses.—Rather, pastures. (See Psalms 79:7.) read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:1-18

Psalms 83:1-18THIS 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 been united in assailing it, inclines one to suppose that the enumeration of enemies is not history, but poetic idealisation. The psalm would then be, not the memorial of a fact, but the expression of the standing relation between Israel and the outlying heathendom. The singer masses together... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 83:1-18

Psalms 83:0 The Final Enemies Overthrown 1. The enemies in confederacy (Psalms 83:1-8 ) 2. Their complete defeat and fate (Psalms 83:9-18 ) Elsewhere in prophecy we read of the confederacies of nations, Israel’s enemies, coming against the land of Israel in a final great onslaught. There will be an invasion from the north mentioned in Isaiah 29:1-24 ; Joel 2:1-32 ; Daniel 8:9-12 , and in Zechariah 12:2 . Then there will also be Gog and Magog invading the land (Ezekiel 38:1-23 , etc.). It... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 83:12

83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the {k} houses of God in possession.(k) That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there he dwells among them. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:1-18

The first psalm in this lesson suggests Psalms 74:0 on which we did not dwell, but both of which depict the desolations of Judah by the Babylonians (compare Jeremiah 52:12-14 ). On this supposition their date would be that of the captivity, and their author a later Asaph than the Asaph mentioned in David’s time. Psalms 80:0 Has captivity features also. Some would say it relates to the ten tribes, as the preceding psalm does to Judah. The next several psalms are much alike in this respect and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 83:9-18

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, when we give him the glory of what is past, in redemptions. The church had many striking and signal deliverances to have recourse to, in the ancient monuments of the Lord's dealing with her foes. The story of Jabin and Sisera, the captain of his host, who mightily oppressed Israel, was well known;... read more