Psalms 83:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For they have consulted together with one consent:a they are confederate against thee: ”

Psalms 83:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they have consulted together with one consent - Margin, as in Hebrew, heart. There is no division in their counsels on this subject. They have one desire - one purpose - in regard to the matt...
Psalms 83:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For they have consulted together (e) with one consent: they are confederate (f) against thee: (e) By all secret means. (f) They thought to have subverted your counsel in which the constancy of the...
Psalms 83:5 - 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 83:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

are confederate . have solemnized. covenant. against Thee. Not only against Thy People ( Psalms 83:3 ).
Psalms 83:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Psalms 83:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: They have consulted together with one consent - With a united heart, לב יחדו leb yachdav, Their heart and soul ar...
Psalms 83:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: For they have, consulted together with one consent - Hebrew, 'with the heart unanimously' ( Psalms 64:5-6...
Psalms 83:5 - 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 83:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They are confederate. — Literally, they have cut a covenant, from the custom described in Genesis 15:17 . (Comp. the Greek δρκια τέμνειν.) Against thee. — God and “His hidden ones” are one, a...
Psalms 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

All confederacies are to the same purport, where God's grace doth not influence the heart. And what a host of them are formed against the Israel of God? And let the Reader remark, who they are that j...
Psalms 83:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they have consulted together with one consent ,.... Or "heart" e; wicked men are cordial to one another, and united in their counsels against the people of God, and his interest: whatever things...
Psalms 83:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: Ver. 5. They have consulted together with one consent ] Heb. with one heart, concorditer, as if they had all...
Psalms 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They have laid aside all their private quarrels and animosities, and agreed together against thee.
Psalms 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - 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 83:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 10:6-8 ; Acts 23:12 ; Acts 23:13 ; Isaiah 7:2 ; Isaiah 7:5-7 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; Isaiah 8:9 ; John 11:47-53 ; Joshua 10:3-5 ; Proverbs 21:30 ; Psalms 2:2 ; Revelation 17:13 ; Revela...

Psalms 83:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 83:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 83:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 83:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 83:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 83:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 83:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 83:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 83:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 83:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge