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8Assur also is joined{H8738)} with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
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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 possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. …
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
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 confirm the kingdom in his hand.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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 (Ps. 83:1): “ Keep not thou silence, O God ! but give judgment for us against those that do us an…
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