--- title: "Psalms 83 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 83 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted u" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/83" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/83)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/83)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/83) Audio 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.* 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from *being* a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:* 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.* 9 Do unto them as *unto* the Midianites; as *to* Sisera, as *to* Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 *Which* perished at Endor: they became *as* dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That *men* may know that thou, whose name alone *is* JEHOVAH, *art* the most high over all the earth. [Psalms 82](/study/psalms/82) [Psalms 84](/study/psalms/84) ## Commentary To verse 1 The title, *A Song* or *Psalm of Asaph*, contains nothing particular. Among a multitude of conjectures relative to the *time* and *occasion* of this Psalm, that which refers it to the confederacy against *Jehoshaphat*, king of Judah, mentioned [2 Chronicles 20:1-30](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/1-30), is the most likely. The following reasons make it probable: 1. The children of *Ammon*, that is, the *Ammonites* and *Moabites*, were the principal movers in the war. 2. The *Idumeans* came to their assistance, [2 Chronicles 20:22](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/22); with certain *Ammonites* or *Meonians*, referred to here in [Psalms 83:8](/kjv/psalms/83/8), and in [2 Chronicles 20:1](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/1). 3. There were also in this confederacy many *strangers* of *Syria*, and from beyond the sea, most likely the Dead Sea, which seems to indicate the *Assyrians, Hagaranes*, and *Ishmaelites*, designed expressly here, [Psalms 83:7-8](/kjv/psalms/83/7-8). 4. In that transaction there was a prophet of the race of *Asaph*, named *Jahaziel*, who foretold to *Jehoshaphat* their total overthrow, [2 Chronicles 20:14](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/14), &c., and probably this *Jahaziel* is the same with *Asaph*, the author of this Psalm. In the course of the notes we shall see other circumstances relative to the war of the *Moabites* and *Ammonites* against *Jehoshaphat*, which illustrates several particulars in this Psalm. See *Calmet*. Verse [Psalms 83:1](/kjv/psalms/83/1). ***Keep not thou silence*** — A strong appeal to God just as the confederacy was discovered. Do not be inactive, do not be neuter. 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