Psalms 83:12

“Who said, etc.] Not the kings and princes of Midian just mentioned, but the confederate enemies of Israel, named (<198306>Psalm 83:68), 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…”

“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…”

“83:12 The coalition’s motivation for wiping out Israel was to acquire the land (see Jer 3:19).”

“Psa 83:4, Psa 74:7, Psa 74:8; Ch2 20:11 Psalms 83:13”