Psalms 83:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Psalms 83:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 20:11
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Psalms 74:7-8
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. …
Psalms 83:4
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God’s name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these en…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. The language of the invaders. houses--literally, “residences,” enclosures, as for flocks (Psa 65:12). of God--as the proprietors of the land (2Ch 20:11; Is 14:25).