Bible Strands
Psalms 83:4
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — A coalition of hostile nations addresses one another as they coordinate a conspiracy against Israel and God during a period of unified opposition.
The words — נַכְחִידֵם (nakhchidem) = let us annihilate them, and יִזָּכֵר (yizaker) = it will be remembered, which frame the enemy’s explicit goal of erasing Israel’s national identity.
The thread — The motif of erasing a people from nationhood appears in Jeremiah 48:2, where enemies plot to cut Moab off from nationhood, and in Esther 3:6, where targeting a specific group escalates to a broader campaign against their entire community.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to confront the explicit intent behind coordinated hostility, recognizing that the threat targets both physical survival and collective memory before seeking divine response.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 48:2 There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jeremiah 11:19 For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Esther 3:6 And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
- Psalms 74:8 They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
- Exodus 1:10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
- Daniel 7:25 He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
- Acts 9:1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
- Proverbs 1:12 let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
- Jeremiah 31:36 “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
- Matthew 27:62 The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.