They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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Gill's Exposition
They have said,.... Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; see Psa 74:8,
come, and let us cut…
Barnes' Notes
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off ... - Let us utterly destroy them, and root them out from among the nations. Let us combine against them, and overpower them; let us divide their land…
The Israel of God were now in danger, and fear, and great distress, and yet their prayer is called, A song or psalm; for singing psalms is not unseasonable, no, not when the harps are hung upon the…
Cambridge Bible
frombeing a nation Their aim is to obliterate the name of Israel from the map of the world. For the phrase cp. Jer 48:2; and see Psa 74:8; 1Ma 5:2. that the name&c. More accurately, and so the name of…
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