Psalms 83:12

12 who said, "Let us take [as] our possession the pastures of God."

Psalms 83:12 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 83:12

Who said
Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named ( Psalms 83:6-8 ) , to whom the like things are wished as to the Midianites and others, because they said what follows:

let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession;
not only the temple, which was eminently the house of God, but all the habitations of the Israelites in Jerusalem, and other places, where the Lord vouchsafed to dwell; unless this should be ironically spoken by their enemies calling them so, because they pretended, as they reckoned it, to have and to hold them by the gift of God; whereas, of right, they belonged to them, at least some of them: such a claim was made by the Ammonites in the times of Jephthah, ( Judges 11:13 ) , and to dispossess the Israelites was the intention of the Ammonites and Moabites in the times of Jehoshaphat, ( 2 Chronicles 20:10 2 Chronicles 20:11 ) .

Psalms 83:12 In-Context

10 They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground.

11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 who said, "Let us take [as] our possession the pastures of God."

13 O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.

14 As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains,