Psalms 83:4

“They have said, etc.] Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; (see <197408>Psalm 74:8), come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; they were not content to invade their country, take their cities, plunder them of their substance, and carry them captives, but utterly to destroy them, root and branch; so that they might be no more a body politic, under rule and government, in their own land, nor have so much as a name and place in others; this was Haman’s scheme, (<170308>Esther 3:8,9) that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance; but this desperate and dreadful scheme, and…”

“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 to Psalms 83:6-8 were 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. The formation of such a…”

“Exo 1:10; Est 3:6-9; Pro 1:12; Jer 11:19, Jer 31:36; Dan 7:25; Mat 27:62-66; Act 4:17, Act 9:1, Act 9:2 Psalms 83:5”