Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
This psalm was written when King Jehoshaphat faced a dreadful confederacy of enemies, not only Ammonites and Moabites, but forces mustered from Syria and distant lands that nearly overwhelmed Judah. The poet enumerates these many nations to show how urgent the prayer for God's aid must be, and to stir us to greater confidence that He will defend His Church against all who conspire to extinguish it.
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Commenting on Psalm 83:1-18
Faith loves to plead precedent before the Lord, and Asaph found the perfect one: Midian fell, and so did Sisera and Jabin at Kishon. A swollen brook swept them away entirely, as terrible to Jabin as the Red Sea was to Pharaoh. When God wills it, a brook becomes as deadly as the sea. How easily the Lord smites the enemies of His people.
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Let the enemy's fate be what befell Midian, Sisera, and Jabin: total rout. God is unchanging toward His people and unchanged against their foes. The Midianites were routed by their own terror more than by Gideon's three hundred; Sisera's army became as dung on the earth. So shall these confederates perish, and Israel be preserved.
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Commenting on Psalm 83:9-18