Philistiaand Phoenicia.83.7 Phoenicia: The Hebrew text has "Tyre," the main city in Phoenicia.
8 Even Assyriahas joined forces
with Moab and Ammon.83.8 Moab and Ammon: The Hebrew text has "the descendants of Lot," whose older daughter was the mother of the Moabites and whose younger daughter was the mother of the Ammonites (see Genesis 19.30-38).
9 Jg 7.1-23;Jg 4.6-22.Our Lord, punish all of them
as you punished Midian.
Destroy them, as you destroyed
Siseraand Jabin
at KishonCreek 10 near Endor,
and let their bodies rot.
11 Jg 7.25;Jg 8.12.Treat their leaders as you did
Oreband Zeeb,
Zebahand Zalmunna.
12 All of them said, "We’ll take
God’s valuable land!"
13 Our God, scatter them around
like dust in a whirlwind.
14 Just as flames destroy forests
on the mountains,
15 pursue and terrify them
with storms of your own.
16 Make them blush with shame,
until they turn and worship
you, our Lord.
17 Let them be forever ashamed
and confused.
Let them die in disgrace.
18 Make them realize that you
are the LordMost High,
the only ruler of earth!
Lugar Bíblico
Região / Território
Edom
Hoje: Southern Jordan (Seir / Petra)
אֱדוֹםedom
Edom is the land of Seir, where Jacob’s brother Esau lived. The king of Edom refused Israel passage through his land, and Edom rebelled against Judah (2 Kings 8:22).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Ammon is the land of the Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, with Rabbah as its capital. The Ammonites fought against Israel in the days of Jephthah, and Joab laid waste their land while David remained in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 20:1).
Amalek is the land of the Amalekites, who attacked Israel at Rephidim and were defeated by Joshua with the sword. They lived in the Negeb (Exodus 17:13).
Philistia is the land of the Philistines, where Gath was located. The Lord says that Philistia acted in vengeance and, with ancient hostility, sought to destroy Judah (Ezekiel 25:15).
Midian is the land of Jethro, priest and father-in-law of Moses, and of the Midianites, who raided the crops of Israel until they were pursued by Gideon and his men (Judges 7:25).
Sisera was the commander of the army of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. He gathered nine hundred chariots of iron to the river Kishon and was killed by a woman with a tent peg (Judges 5:26).
The Kishon is a river to which Sisera, commander of Jabin’s army, summoned his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and his troops, and where Elijah slaughtered the prophets of Baal (Judges 4:13).
En-dor was the city where there was a medium Saul wanted to consult when the Lord did not answer him. Manasseh had En-dor and its settlements in Issachar and Asher (1 Samuel 28:7).