Psalms 83:4
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
5For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—
Cross References
Joshua 9:2they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.
Esther 3:6And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
Proverbs 1:12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Jeremiah 31:36“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
Ezekiel 38:10This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Matthew 27:62The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:2-9
Complaints against Enemies. 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… Read the whole commentary →