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
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 83:9-18
The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God's name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these enemies, who were confederate against Israel, might be defeated in all their attempts, and that they... read more