Psalms 83:5 Cross References

Psalms 83:5

5: This was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you--

The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the LORD and against his anointed one.

So King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem sent messengers to several other kings: Hoham of Hebron, Piram of Jarmuth, Japhia of Lachish, and Debir of Eglon.
"Come and help me destroy Gibeon," he urged them, "for they have made peace with Joshua and the people of Israel."
So these five Amorite kings combined their armies for a united attack. They moved all their troops into place and attacked Gibeon.

Then I saw the beast gathering the kings of the earth and their armies in order to fight against the one sitting on the horse and his army.

"The Assyrians will cry, `Do your best to defend yourselves, but you will be shattered! Listen all you nations. Prepare for battle--and die! Yes, die!
Call your councils of war, develop your strategies, prepare your plans of attack--and then die! For God is with us! '"

Now the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, so they hired twenty thousand Aramean mercenaries from the lands of Beth-rehob and Zobah, one thousand from the king of Maacah, and twelve thousand from the land of Tob.
When David heard about this, he sent Joab and the entire Israelite army to fight them.
The Ammonite troops drew up their battle lines at the entrance of the city gates, while the Arameans from Zobah and Rehob and the men from Tob and Maacah positioned themselves to fight in the open fields.

The news had come to the royal court: "Aram is allied with Israel against us!" So the hearts of the king and his people trembled with fear, just as trees shake in a storm.

"Yes, the kings of Aram and Israel are coming against you. They are saying,
`We will invade Judah and throw its people into panic. Then we will fight our way into Jerusalem and install the son of Tabeel as Judah's king.'
"But this is what the Sovereign LORD says: This invasion will never happen,

Then the leading priests and Pharisees called the high council together to discuss the situation. "What are we going to do?" they asked each other. "This man certainly performs many miraculous signs.
If we leave him alone, the whole nation will follow him, and then the Roman army will come and destroy both our Temple and our nation."
And one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "How can you be so stupid?
Why should the whole nation be destroyed? Let this one man die for the people."
This prophecy that Jesus should die for the entire nation came from Caiaphas in his position as high priest. He didn't think of it himself; he was inspired to say it.

The next morning a group of Jews got together and bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
There were more than forty of them.

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