Psalms 83:4

"“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”"

Key Reflection

This verse captures the intense hatred and desire to erase the existence of the Israelites entirely, not just as individuals but as a people. Such a plot underscores the spiritual struggle between those who seek the destruction of God’s chosen people and the unyielding presence of Israel in divine history.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off ... -Let us utterly destroy them, and root them out from among the nations. Let us combine against them, and overpower them; let us divide their land among ourselves, attaching it to our own. The nations referred toPsalms 83:6-8were those which surrounded the land of Israel; and the proposal seems to have been to partition the land of the Hebrews among themselves, as has been done in modern times in regard to Poland. On what principles, and in what proportions, they proposed thus to divide the land is not intimated, nor is it said that the project had gone so far that they had agreed on the terms of such a division.

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