Psalms 83 · Verse 11

Psalms 83:11

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Psalms 83:11, King James Version

Psalms 83:11 in other translations

BSBMake their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
WEBMake their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
ASVMake their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
YLTMake their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,
DARBYMake their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
BBEMake their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
WebsterMake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

What does Psalms 83:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 83:9-11

9-11. Compare the similar fate of these (2Ch 20:23) with that of the foes mentioned in Jud 7:22, here referred to. They destroyed one another (Jud 4:6-24; 7:25). Human remains form manure (compare 2Ki 9:37; Jr 9:22).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Lake their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb - They were two of the chiefs, or generals, of the Midianites; and were slain in the pursuit of the Midianites, by the men of Ephraim; and their heads brought to Gideon on the other side of JorDaniel Jdg 7:24, Jdg 7:25. Yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna - These were kings of Midian, who were encamped at Karkor with fifteen thoussand men, whom Gideon attacked there, and defeated, and took the kings prisoners; and finding that they had killed his own brothers slew them both. See Jdg 8:10-21. Of the Midianites there fell at this time one hundred and twenty thousand men.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 83:9-18

All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom. God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and the same against his and their enemies. God would make their enemies like a wheel; unsettled in all their counsels and resolves. Not only let them be driven away as stubble, but burnt as stubble. And this will be the end of wicked men. Let them be made to fear thy name, and perhaps that…

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Psalms 83:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שִׁיתֵ֣מוֹshi.Te.movmake themH7896
נְ֭דִיבֵמוֹne.di.ve.monoble [people] theirH5081
כְּעֹרֵ֣בke.'o.Revlike OrebH6159
וְכִזְאֵ֑בve.khiz.'Evand like ZeebH2062
וּֽכְזֶ֥בַחu.khe.Ze.vachand like ZebahH2078
וּ֝כְצַלְמֻנָּ֗עu.khe.tzal.mu.Na'and like ZalmunnaH6759
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
נְסִיכֵֽמוֹ\׃ne.si.Khe.movprinces theirH5257

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 83:11

  • Judges 7:25

    And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

  • Judges 8:12-21

    And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host. And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up, And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men. And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary? …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Oreb.
Jud 7:25
Zebah.
Jud 8:12-21

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Context

  • Psalms 83:10

    Which perished at En–dor: they became as dung for the earth.

  • Psalms 83:11

    Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

  • Psalms 83:12

    Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

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Psalms 83:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Pon á ellos y á sus capitanes como á Oreb y como á Zeeb; y como á Zeba y como á Zalmunna, á todos sus príncipes;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Qui ont été détruits à En-Dor, qui sont devenus du fumier pour la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Mache sie, ihre Edlen, wie Oreb und wie Seeb, und wie Sebach und wie Zalmunna alle ihre Herrscher!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Quia melior est dies una in atriis tuis super millia; elegi abjectus esse in domo Dei mei magis quam habitare in tabernaculis peccatorum.