Psalms 83:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 83:12

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

KJV

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ASV

Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.

WEB

who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”

YLT

Who have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

DBT

For they have said, Let us take to ourselvesGod's dwelling-places in possession.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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6 verses on the floor

2 Chronicles 20:11
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
Ezekiel 35:12
And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
Psalms 74:7–8
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psalms 83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Ezekiel 7:24
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

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Hosea 13:3

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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This, in the singing of it, we may apply to the enemies of the gospel-church, all anti-christian powers and factions, representing to God their confederacies against Christ and his kingdom, and rejoicing in the hope that all their projects will be baffled and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), the pleasant places of God (so the word is), by which we may understand the land of Canaan, which was a pleasant land and was Immanuel's land, or the temple, which was indeed God's pleasant place ( Isa. lxiv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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