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Psalm 83:6

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
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Notice

The tents of Edom begin a list that makes the threat against Israel concrete: distinct peoples have joined a plan to erase a nation.

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What fears surface as you read this list of peoples united against Israel?

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How does calling this an alliance against God shape your understanding of the threat?

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 25:12Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.Genesis names Ishmael as Abraham and Hagar’s son, providing the family background to the Ishmaelites named in the psalm.
1 Chronicles 5:10In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.Both texts name the Hagrites in conflict with Israel; Chronicles describes their defeat and the occupation of their tents.
2 Chronicles 20:10–11Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away …Moab appears in both passages: Chronicles recalls Israel leaving Moab unharmed, while the psalm lists Moab among those plotting Israel’s destruction.
2 Chronicles 20:1After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.Both passages name Moab as part of a coalition gathering against Israel or its king.
Psalm 137:7Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”Both psalms name Edom among those seeking destruction: Israel’s destruction in Psalm 83 and Jerusalem’s demolition in Psalm 137.
Genesis 37:25They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and …Both texts name Ishmaelites, though Genesis describes a trading caravan and the psalm lists them within a hostile alliance.
1 Chronicles 5:19–20They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.The Hagrites appear among several named peoples in both passages, each set within a conflict involving Israel.
2 Samuel 8:2He defeated Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep …Both passages name Moab in conflict with Israel; Samuel records David’s victory and execution of many Moabites.
Where this verse fits

Fear for the future. injustice and anger. sermon or Bible study notes.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read verses 4–8 and write down the alliance’s stated aim

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Encouragement

These names belong to a threat spoken before God. The surrounding words treat the plot to destroy Israel as an alliance against God himself.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).