Psalms 83:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. ”

Psalms 83:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have taken crafty counsel - The one word translated “have taken crafty” - ערם ‛ âram - means properly to make naked; and then, to be crafty, cunning, malignant, 1 Samuel 23:22 . It is...
Psalms 83:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (c) hidden ones. (c) The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserv...
Psalms 83:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were...
Psalms 83:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Consulted against thy hidden ones - צפוניך tsephuneycha, Thy hidden things; places; persons. "The hidden thin...
Psalms 83:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thy hidden ones— God's hidden or treasured ones, are those faithful ones whom he keeps up safe and precious as his treasures. The Chaldee paraphrase renders it, Thy hidden treasures; and else...
Psalms 83:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people - They combine craft with violence. And consulte...
Psalms 83:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 83:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They have taken crafty counsel. — Literally, They have made their plot crafty ; or, as we say, “They have laid a deep plot.” Hidden ones — i.e., those under God’s close protection, as in Psa...
Psalms 83:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 83:1-18 THIS 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 cou...
Psalms 83:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The Most High over All the Earth” Psalms 83:1-18 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 , where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Ja...
Psalms 83:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution, and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the...
Psalms 83:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Do, Reader, remark the expression; the Lord's hidden ones. As Christ himself is said to be hid in the Father's shadow, in his hand, and in his quiver, Isaiah 49:2 ; so Christ's little ones are said...
Psalms 83:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘THY HIDDEN ONES’ ‘They have … consulted against Thy hidden ones.’ Psalms 83:3 I. We may draw sweet and almost inexhaustible instruction from the names given to the children of God in Script...
Psalms 83:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people ,.... The people of Israel, hereafter named, whom God had chosen and avouched to be his people; these they dealt subtlety with, as the king of Egypt...
Psalms 83:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Ver. 3. They have taken crafty counsel, &c. ] They have negotiated this league with much subtilty and...
Psalms 83:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They have consulted against thy hidden ones That is, against thy people Israel, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and in the next verse. They are called God's hidden , or secret ones , צ...
Psalms 83:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Complaints against Enemies. A song or psalm of Asaph. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be n...
Psalms 83:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

i.e. Thy people of Israel, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and in the next verse; who are called God's hidden or secret ones, to intimate the singular care and respect which God hath to th...
Psalms 83:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit o...
Psalms 83:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished sid...
Psalms 83:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the n...
Psalms 83:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God. An appeal to Heaven I. A lamentable social scene ( Psalms 83:2-8 ). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility b...
Psalms 83:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the surrounding nations, having for its object the d...
Psalms 83:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Prayer for Help against the Enemies of the Church. A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter, picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy de...
Psalms 83:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 13:19 ; Colossians 3:3 ; Isaiah 7:6 ; Isaiah 7:7 ; Luke 20:20-23 ; Psalms 10:9 ; Psalms 27:5 ; Psalms 31:20 ; Psalms 56:6 ; Psalms 64:2 ; Psalms 91:1
Psalms 83:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hidden ones — Thy people of Israel, who are called God's hidden or secret ones, to intimate the respect which God has to them, as to his peculiar treasure.

Psalms 83:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 83:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 83:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 83:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 83:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 83:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 83:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 83:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 83:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 83:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes