Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Parallel translations
- WEB Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- BSB of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
- NKJV Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- NASB Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- NLT Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.
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Quick answer
The list continues with Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, and Tyre. A wide array of nations has joined the hostile alliance.
Overview
More enemies are named, spanning surrounding regions and peoples with histories of conflict against Israel. The breadth of the coalition magnifies the apparent danger. Yet by laying out the full threat before God, the psalmist entrusts an overwhelming situation to the One who is greater than them all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Josh 13:5And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
- Ezek 27:3And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
- Ezek 27:9The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
- Amos 1:9Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
- 1 Sam 4:1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
- 1 Sam 15:2Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
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