John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 83:12

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 claim was made by the Ammonites in the times of Jephthah, (<071113>Judges 11:13), and to dispossess the Israelites was the intention of the Ammonites and Moabites in the times of Jehoshaphat, (<142010>2 Chronicles 20:10,11).

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