“Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:”
Further divine action is invoked: "Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna." The enumeration of Midianite kings and princes executed by Gideon (Oreb, Zeeb, Zebah, Zalmunna) establishes the prototype for the judgment requested: the destruction of enemy leadership.
Church Fathers on Psalms 83:11
1. Of this Psalm the title is, “A song of a Psalm of Asaph.” We have already often said what is the interpretation of Asaph, that is, congregation. That man, therefore, who was called Asaph, is named in representation of the congregation of God's people in the titles of many Psalms. But in Greek, congregation is called synagogue, which has come to be held for a kind of proper name for the Jewish people, that it should be called The Synagogue; even as the Christian people is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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