Psalms 83:8

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Assur	אַ֭שּׁוּר 'A.shur	H804	Ashshur · proper noun, a place name
joined	נִלְוָ֣ה nil.Vah	H3867	properly · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
holpen	זְר֖וֹעַ ze.Ro.a'	H2220	the arm (as stretched out) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
children	לִבְנֵי liv.nei-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
Lot	ל֣וֹט Lot	H3876	Lot · proper noun, a man's name
Selah	סֶֽלָה Se.lah	H5542	suspension (of music) · interjection

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Cross-references

Deuteronomy 2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a poss…
Genesis 10:11 Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
Genesis 19:37-38 And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
Genesis 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
2 Kings 15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to con…
Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:1-8

The Israel of God were now in danger, and fear, and great distress, and yet their prayer is called, A song or psalm; for singing psalms is not unseasonable, no, not when the harps are hung upon the willow-trees. I. The psalmist here begs of God to appear on the behalf of his injured threatened people (Psa 83:1): "Keep not thou silence, O God! but give judgment for us against those that do us an apparent wrong." Thus Jehoshaphat prayed upon occasion of that invasion (Ch2 20:11), Behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession. Sometimes God seems to connive at the unjust treatment which is given to his people; he keeps silence, as one that either did not observe it or did…

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John Gill on 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, "Sennacherib, king of Syria, is joined with them;'' and so some refer this to his invasion of Judea, and besieging Jerusalem, with an army consisting of many nations, in Hezekiah's time; but he was the principal th…

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John Calvin on Psalms 83:5-8

Psalm 83:5-8 5. For they have consulted with the heart together; they have entered into a covenant [434] against thee. 6. The tents of Edom, [435] and the Ishmaelites [436] Moab [437] and the Hagarenes. [438] 7. Gebal, [439] and Ammon, [440] and Amalek [441] the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre. 8. Assur is also associated with them: they have been an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah. 5 For they have consulted with the heart together. The multiplied hosts which united their powers together to oppose the Church of God and to effect her overthrow, are here enumerated. As so many nations, formed into one powerful confederacy, were bent on the destruction of a kingdom not greatly distingu…

The Church Fathers

For Assur also came with them. They went before, and he follows. Let us see who this is that follows. Assur indeed is interpreted "the devil": truly so, because he is both the enemy and the avenger, as is written in the eighth psalm, "That you may destroy the enemy and the defender." He himself makes us sin, and he himself accuses us for punishment. For Assur came together with them. They have the devil as their prince, they have him as their emperor: not Josiah the righteous king rules over them, but the Assyrian. They became a help to the sons of Lot. Lot is interpreted "turning aside," which is understood, from God, like the Jewish people: because all the heretics agree with the Jews in blasphemies.
— Jerome, Homily 62, on Psalm 82 (Alternate Series)

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Dictionary and topics

Ammon — Another form of the name Ben-ammi, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:38). This name is also used for his posterity (Ps. 83:7).
Assur — (Ezra 4:2; Psalms 83:8) [Asshur, Assyria, Asshur; ASSYRIA]
Jehoshaphat, Valley of — 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…
Nineveh — First mentioned in Gen. 10:11, which is rendered in the Revised Version, “He [i.e., Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and builded Nineveh.” It is not again noticed till the days of Jonah, when it is…

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 83:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:1-8

John Gill on Psalms 83:8

John Calvin on Psalms 83:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 83:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:1-8

John Gill on Psalms 83:8

John Calvin on Psalms 83:5-8

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 83:5-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 83:8

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 83:8