Salmos 83:12

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

que disseram: Tomemos para ns, em possesso hereditria, as famosas habitaes de Deus.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
Que disseram: Tomemos para ns as casas de Deus em possesso.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
que disseram: Apoderemo-nos das habitaes de Deus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 83:4, Psalms 74:7, Psalms 74:8, 2 Chronicles 20:11

Reciprocal: Judges 7:25 - two princes Ezekiel 7:24 - their holy places shall be defiled Ezekiel 35:12 - they are given Hosea 13:3 - as the chaff

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who said,.... Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named Psalms 83:6, 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession - The houses of God here mean the habitations of God, or the places where he dwelt among the people. As there was but one ark, one tabernacle, and one temple, or one place of constituted public worship, this must refer to other places where God was worshipped, or where he might be supposed to reside; either to synagogues (see the notes at Psalms 74:8), or to the private dwellings of the people regarded as a holy people, or as a people among whom God dwelt. This may, therefore, imply that their dwellings - their private abodes - were also dwelling-places of God, as now the house of a religious family - a place where God is regularly worshipped - may be regarded as an abode of God on the earth. The language here is not to be understood as that of Oreb and Zeeb, of Zebah and Zalmunna, but of the enemies referred to in the psalm, who had entered into the conspiracy to destroy the Hebrew nation. They had said, “Let us inherit the houses of God;” that is, Let us take to ourselves, and for our possession, the dwellings of the land where God is supposed to reside.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 83:12. Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. — Nearly the words spoken by the confederates when they came to attack Jehoshaphat. They come (says the king in address to God) to cast us out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit. See 2 Chronicles 20:11.