these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;
Parallel translations
- WEB The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
- KJV The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
- BSB the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
- NKJV The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;
- NASB The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;
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Quick answer
The psalm names the hostile peoples, beginning with Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites. The threat is concrete, from real surrounding nations.
Overview
The catalog of enemies (vv. 6-8) lists peoples encircling Israel, many of them long-standing foes and even distant kin (Edom, Moab, the Ishmaelites). Naming them makes the danger vivid and specific. It reminds God's people that He knows every adversary by name and that no coalition escapes His notice.
Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Chr 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.
- 2 Chr 20:1After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
- Ps 137:7Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
- 2 Chr 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 aside from them, and didn’t destroy them;
- 1 Chr 5:19–20They made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
- Gen 25:12–18Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.
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