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83:1 A song <07892>, a psalm <04210> of Asaph <0623>. O God <0430>, do not <0408> be silent <01824>! Do not <0408> ignore <02790> us! Do not <0408> be inactive <08252>, O God <0410>! 83:2 For <03588> look <02009>, your enemies <0341> are making a commotion <01993>; those who hate <08130> you are hostile <07218> <05375>. 83:3 They carefully <06191> plot <05475> against <05921> your people <05971>, and make plans <03289> to harm the ones you cherish <06845>. 83:4 They say <0559>, “Come <01980> on, let’s annihilate <03582> them so they are no longer a nation <01471>! Then the name <08034> of Israel <03478> will be remembered <02142> no <03808> more <05750>.” 83:5 Yes <03588>, they devise <03289> a unified <03162> strategy <03820>; they form <03772> an alliance <01285> against <05921> you. 83:6 It includes the tents <0168> of Edom <0123> and the Ishmaelites <03459>, Moab <04124> and the Hagrites <01905>, 83:7 Gebal <01381>, Ammon <05983>, and Amalek <06002>, Philistia <06429> and the inhabitants <03427> of Tyre <06865>. 83:8 Even <01571> Assyria <0804> has allied <03867> with <05973> them, lending <01961> its strength <02220> to the descendants <01121> of Lot <03876>. (Selah <05542>) 83:9 Do <06213> to them <01992> as you did to Midian <04080>– as you did to Sisera <05516> and Jabin <02985> at the Kishon <07028> River <05158>! 83:10 They were destroyed <08045> at Endor <05874>; their corpses were <01961> like manure <01828> on the ground <0127>. 83:11 Make <07896> their nobles <05081> like Oreb <06159> and Zeeb <02062>, and all <03605> their rulers <05257> like Zebah <02078> and Zalmunna <06759>, 83:12 who <0834> said <0559>, “Let’s take over <03423> the pastures <04999> of God <0430>!” 83:13 O my God <0430>, make <07896> them like dead thistles <01534>, like dead weeds <07179> blown away by <06440> the wind <07307>! 83:14 Like the fire <0784> that burns down <01197> the forest <03293>, or the flames <03852> that consume <03857> the mountainsides <02022>, 83:15 chase <07291> them with your gale winds <05591>, and terrify <0926> them with your windstorm <05492>.

• Psa 83:1-18 -- Psalm 83

• PALESTINE, 3

  [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...
  

• SEPTUAGINT, 2

  [isbe] SEPTUAGINT, 2 - VI. Reconstruction of Septuagint Text; Versions, Manuscripts and Printed Editions. The task of restoring the original text is beset with difficulties. The materials (MSS, VSS, patristic citations) are abundan...
  

• Asaph

  [nave] ASAPH 1. Father of Joah, 2 Kin. 18:18; Isa. 36:3, 22. 2. Son of Berachiah. One of the three leaders of music in David's organization of the tabernacle service, 1 Chr. 15:16-19; 16:5-7; 25:1-9; 2 Chr. 5:12; 35:15; Neh. 12:46...
  

• Persecution

  [nave] PERSECUTION See also Intolerance; Bigotry. Of Jesus Gen. 3:15; Psa. 2:1-5; Psa. 22:1, 2, 6-8, 11-21; Psa. 69:7-9, 20, 21, 26 vs. 1-21.; Psa. 109:25; Isa. 49:7; Isa. 50:6; Isa. 52:14; Isa. 53:2-5, 7-10; Mic. 5:1; Matt. 2:13...
  

• Afflictions and Adversities

  [nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...
  

• Armies

  [nave] ARMIES Who of the Israelites were subject to service in, Num. 1:2, 3; 26:2; 2 Chr. 25:5; who were exempt from service in, Num. 1:47-50; 2:33; Deut. 20:5-9; Judg. 7:3. Enumeration of Israel's military forces, Num. 1:2, 3; 26...
  

• Prayer

  [nave] PRAYER. Index of Sub-topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Answer to, Promised; Answered, Instances of Answered; Confession in; Importunity in, Instances of Importunity in; Intercessor...
  

• JUDGES, PERIOD OF

  [isbe] JUDGES, PERIOD OF - || I. SOURCES II. CHRONOLOGY III. GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION 1. The Canaanites 2. Foes Without IV. MAIN EVENTS 1. Struggles of Individual Tribes 2. Civil Strife 3. The Six Invasions 4. Need of Central Go...
  

• Jabin

  [ebd] discerner; the wise. (1.) A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy against Joshua was the ...
  [isbe] JABIN - ja'-bin (yabhin, "one who is intelligent," "discerning." The word may have been a hereditary royal title among the northern Canaanites. Compare the familiar usage of par`oh melekh mitsrayim): (1) "The king of Hazor,"...
  [nave] JABIN, names of two kings of Hazor, Josh. 11:1-14; Judg. 4:2, 7, 17, 23, 24; Psa. 83:9.
  

• Zebah

  [ebd] man-killer, or sacrifice, one of the two kings who led the vast host of the Midianites who invaded the land of Israel, and over whom Gideon gained a great and decisive victory (Judg. 8). Zebah and Zalmunna had succeeded in e...
  [smith] and Zalmun?na (deprived of protection), the two "kings" of Midian who commanded the great invasion of Palestine, and who finally fell by the hand of Gideon himself. (Judges 8:5-21; Psalms 83:11) (B.C. 1250.) While Oreb and Ze...
  [nave] ZEBAH, king of Midian, Judg. 8:5-21; Psa. 83:11.
  

• Zeeb

  [ebd] the wolf, one of the two leaders of the great Midianite host which invaded Israel and was utterly routed by Gideon. The division of that host, which attempted to escape across the Jordan, under Oreb and Zeeb, was overtaken b...
  [smith] (wolf), one of the two "princes" of Midian in the great invasion of Israel. (B.C. about 1250.) He is always named with Oreb. (Judges 7:25; 8:3; Psalms 83:11) Zeeb and Oreb were not slain at the first rout of the Arabs, but at...
  [nave] ZEEB, a prince of Midian, Judg. 7:25; 8:3; Psa. 83:11.
  

• Gebal

  [ebd] a line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1.) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea (Ps. 83:7); now called Djebal. (2.) A Phoenician city, not far from the sea coast, to the north of Beyrout (Ezek. 27:9...
  [isbe] GEBAL - ge'-bal (gebhal, "border"; Bublos, and Biblos; Byblus, modern Jebeil): (1) An ancient Phoenician city, situated on a bluff of the foothills of Lebanon, overlooking the Mediterranean. It was one of the principal seapo...
  [nave] GEBAL 1. A city south of Sidon. Given to Reuben, Josh. 13:5. People of, work for Solomon, 1 Kin. 5:18. Shipbuilders in, Ezek. 27:9. 2. A district near the Dead Sea, Psa. 83:7.
  

• Jehoshaphat, Valley of

  [ebd] mentioned in Scripture only in Joel 3:2, 12. This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew the confederated enemie...
  

• Oreb

  [smith] (raven), one of the chieftains of the Midianite host which invaded Israel, and was defeated and driven back by Gideon. (Judges 7:25) (B.C. 1362.) Isaiah, (Isaiah 10:26) refers to the magnitude of this disaster. Comp. (Psalms ...
  [nave] OREB 1. A prince of Midian, overcome by Gideon and killed by the Ephraimites, Judg. 7:25; 8:3; Psa. 83:11. 2. A rock E. of the Jordan, where Oreb was slain, Judg. 7:25; Isa. 10:26.
  

• En-Dor

  [isbe] EN-DOR - en'-dor `en dor, Josh 17:11; `en dor, 1 Sam 28:7; `en do'r, Ps 83:10; Codex Alexandrinus, Nendor; Codex Vaticanus, Aeldor): A town in the lot of Issachar assigned to Manasseh (Josh 17:11). Here dwelt the woman who h...
  [nave] EN-DOR, a city of Manasseh, Josh. 17:11. The witch of, consulted by Saul, 1 Sam. 28:7-25. Deborah triumphs at, over Sisera, Judg. 4; Psa. 83:10.
  

• WHEEL

  [ebd] (Heb. galgal; rendered "wheel" in Ps. 83:13, and "a rolling thing" in Isa. 17:13; R.V. in both, "whirling dust"). This word has been supposed to mean the wild artichoke, which assumes the form of a globe, and in autumn break...
  [isbe] WHEEL - hwel: (1) 'ophan, is the usual word (Ex 14:25, etc.). In Prov 20:26; Isa 28:27 the rollers of a threshing wagon are meant (see AGRICULTURE). (2) galgal, "rolling thing," generally in the sense of "wheel" (Isa 5:28, e...
  

• GIDEON

  [ebd] called also Jerubbaal (Judg. 6:29, 32), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judg. 6-8). His calling is the commencement of the second period in the history of the judges. After the victory...
  [smith] (he that cuts down), youngest son of Joash of the Abiezrites, an undistinguished family who lived at Ophrah, a town probably on the west of Jordan, (Judges 6:15) in the territory of Manasseh, near Shechem. He was the fifth re...
  

• Midianite

  [ebd] an Arabian tribe descended from Midian. They inhabited principally the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. The peninsula of Sinai was the pasture-ground for their flocks. They were virtually the rulers of Arabia, being ...
  

• Endor

  [ebd] fountain of Dor; i.e., "of the age", a place in the territory of Issachar (Josh. 17:11) near the scene of the great victory which was gained by Deborah and Barak over Sisera and Jabin (comp. Ps. 83:9, 10). To Endor, Saul res...
  

• KISON

  [smith] (winding), an inaccurate mode of representing the name Kishon. (Psalms 83:9)
  

• Psalms 83: Prayer for Help against the Enemies

  

• [Psa 83:1] O God, No Longer Hold Thy Peace

  O God, no longer hold Thy peace, No longer silent be; Thine enemies lift up their head To fight Thy saints and Thee. Against Thine own, whom Thou dost love, Their craft Thy foes employ; They think to cut Thy people off, Thy church they would destroy. Thine ancient foes, conspiring still, With one consent agree, And they who with Thy people strive Make war, O God, on Thee. O God, who in our fathers’ time Didst smite our foes and Thine, So smite Thine enemies today Who in their pride combine. Make them like dust and stubble blown Before the whirlwind dire, In terror driv’n before the storm Of Thy consuming fire. Confound them in their sin till they To Thee for pardon fly, Till in dismay they, trembling, own That Thou art God Most High.

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• Who Were the Ishmaelites?
  They were descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's son, and were divided into twelve tribes (Gen. 25:16; Gen. 16:15,16). They were also called Hagarites, Hagarenes and Arabians (I Chron. 5:10; Psa. 83:6; Isa. 13:20). They were gover...

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