Psalm 83 Arab Confederacy

Psalm 83 Arab Confederacy – The next coming war?

Psa 83:1 NASB - A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.

Psa 83:2 NASB - For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

Psa 83:3 NASB - They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.

Psa 83:4 NASB - They have said, "Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more."

Psa 83:5 NASB - For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant:

Psa 83:6 NASB - The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;

Psa 83:7 NASB - Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psa 83:8 NASB - Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

These verses provide the names of the ten nations which have evidently formed a coalition against Israel, the Edomites, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagrites, Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, the Philistines, Tyre, and Assyria.^[4]   

Let's first identify the various players (with a hat tip to Bill Salus for much of the research)

Ishmael was the eponymous father of the Arabs, his brother Isaac being the father of the Jews.  The Ishmaelites most probably refers to the Saudis, but that identification is admittedly speculative.

The Tents of Edom refers to the Palestinians of the West Bank and southern Jordan.  The Moabites refers to the Palestinians and central Jordanians.

The Hagarites corresponds with Egypt, Gebal with Hezbollah and the Lebanese.  Ammon includes the Palestinians and northern Jordanians, Phillistia corresponds with Hamas and the Gaza Strip. 

Last but not least are Assyria (Syria and Kurdish Iraq) and Tyre, (Hezbollah and South Lebanon).

The peoples named here are the forefathers of the Islamic peoples surrounding Israel today that are currently planning to destroy her.

Persia -- modern Iran -- doesn't make the list.  Iran's fingerprints are all over the battle plan, but the combatants are all Arabs.  Iranians are Persians, not Arabs.     

This is the war (a war between Israel, Hizbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorists groups with Iran’s indirect involvement) that seems to be “cooking up” for this summer and could include the war of Isa. 17 and Jer. 49. The war of Ezek. 38 that involves Iran/Persia and the Islamic nations north and south of Israel would follow this war.