Psalm 83

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:7

Gebal ,.... Gubleans, or Gebalites, as the Targum; the same with Giblites, Joshua 23:5 , or men of Gebal, Ezekiel 27:9 the same with Byblus: these dwelt in Phoenicia, near Tyre, where Pliny F7 Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 20. makes mention of a place called Gabale: the Syriac version joins it with Ammon, and renders it "the border of Ammon": and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre ; these are well known in Scripture, and as the enemies of Israel. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:8

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 joined them, continuing in their wickedness, though their army had been destroyed by an angel in Hezekiah's time, of which they were unmindful; but this, as his son observes, makes this confederacy and war to be after the times of Hezekiah; whereas it was long before it: the Targum is, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:9

Do unto them as unto the Midianites ,.... In the times of Gideon, who destroyed one another, trod in whose destruction the hand of the Lord was very visible, Judges 7:20 , and much in the same manner was the confederate army of the Moabites, Ammonites, and others, destroyed in the times of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 20:20 , as to Sisera, as to Jabin : Jabin was a king of Canaan, who oppressed Israel, and Sisera was his general; the latter was slain by a woman, Jael, the wife of Heber;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:10

Which perished at Endor ,.... Aben Ezra and Kimchi understand this of the Midianites; but rather it is to be understood of Jabin and Sisera, and the army under them, who perished at this place, which is mentioned along with Taanach and Megiddo, Joshua 17:11 , which are the very places where the battle was fought between Jabin and Israel, Judges 5:19 according to Jerom F9 De locis Hebraicis, fol. 88. L. and 91. E. , it was four miles from Mount Tabor to the south, and was a large... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:11

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb ,.... Two princes of Midian, who were slain, the one at the rock Oreb, and the other at the winepress of Zeeb, so called after their names, Judges 7:25 , yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna ; kings of Midian, slain by Gideon, Judges 8:21 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:12

Who said ,.... Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named Psalm 83:6 , to whom the like things are wished as to the Midianites and others, because they said what follows: let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession ; not only the temple, which was eminently the house of God, but all the habitations of the Israelites in Jerusalem, and other places, where the Lord vouchsafed to dwell; unless this should be ironically... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:13

O my God, make them like a wheel ,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in slippery places, and brought down to desolation in a moment; like a wheel set running down hill, so let them swiftly and suddenly come to ruin; or be in all kind of calamities, and continual troubles F11 "Vide Suidam in voce" τροχου . as the wheel is always turning: some think there is an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:14

As the fire burneth the wood ,.... Or "forest" F13 יער "sylvam", Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.; ; which is sometimes done purposely, and sometimes through carelessness, as Virgil F14 Georgic. l. 2. v. 310. observes; and which is done very easily and swiftly, when fire is set to it; even all the trees of it, great and small, to which an army is sometimes compared, Isaiah 10:18 , and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; either the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:15

So persecute them with thy tempest ,.... Pursue them with thy fury, follow them with thy vengeance; cause it to fall upon them like a mighty tempest: and make them afraid with thy storm ; God has his storms and tempests of wrath and vengeance, which he sometimes causes to fall upon wicked men in this life, to their inexpressible terror, and with which he takes them out of this world; and he has still more horrible ones to rain upon them hereafter: see Job 27:20 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with shame ,.... For their sins, or rather through disappointment, not being able to put their desperate and deep laid schemes into execution: or "with lightness" F15 קלון Heb. "levitate", Piscator; so Ainsworth. ; instead of a weight of honour and glory upon them, let them be despised. R. Joseph Kimchi renders it, "fill their faces with fire"; let their faces be as if they were on fire, as men's faces are, who are put to an exceeding great blush, or are most sadly... read more

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