Psalms 83:8

“Assur also is joined with them, etc.] Before mentioned, or Assyria, though at so great a distance from Israel, and unprovoked by them: according to R. Joseph Kimchi, the sense is, that the Assyrians joined them, continuing in their wickedness, though their army had been destroyed by an angel in Hezekiah’s time, of which they were unmindful; but this, as his son observes, makes this confederacy and war to be after the times of Hezekiah; whereas it was long before it: the Targum is, “Sennacherib, king of Syria, is joined with them;” and so some refer this to his invasion of Judea, and besieging Jerusalem, with an army consisting of many nations, in Hezekiah’s time; but he was the principal…”

“Assur also is joined with them - Assyria. Assyria was on the northeast of Palestine. The conspirators had secured, it seems, the aid of this powerful kingdom, and they felt confident of success. They have holpen the children of Lot - The sons, or the descendants of Lot. The margin is, as the Hebrew, “been an arm to.” That is, they were an aid, or help; in other words, the sons of Lot were permitted, as it were, to make use of the arm of these powerful nations in accomplishing their purposes. The sons of Lot were Moab and Ammon, the ancestors of the Moabites and the Ammonites, Genesis 19:37-38. It would appear from this, that the purpose of destroying the Hebrew people had been originated by…”

“Of Lot - Moab and Ammon. Psalms 83:13”

“83:8 Assyria was northeast of Israel and north of the Persian Gulf. • The descendants of Lot were the Moabites and the Ammonites (83:6-7).”

“Assur: Assur is the same in the original as Asshur, or Assyria. Gen 10:11, Asshur, Gen 25:3 holpen: Heb. been an arm to, Isa 33:2 the children: Gen 19:37, Gen 19:38; Deu 2:9 Psalms 83:9”