For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
The verse describes hostile heathen nations consulting together with one mind and forming a united alliance against God Himself by attacking His people. Their shared intent was to destroy Israel as a nation and erase the remembrance of its name. It applies to and was fulfilled in Jehoshaphat's time, when Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir threatened Judah.
That confederacy included Edom, the Ishmaelites, the Hagarenes, Gebal, and Amalek, who raised a tumult and formed crafty, secret plans against God's hidden, sheltered ones. Faced with that united peril, all Judah with their wives, children, and little ones fasted and prayed together unitedly with their eyes upon God, trusting His past interpositions and acts of deliverance to save His chosen ones. Their plea was for God not to keep silence but to put the enemies to confusion, shame, and destruction as He had done to the Midianites and to Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon, letting them be confounded, put to shame, and perish, so that men may know that He whose name alone is Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.
The verse describes hostile heathen nations consulting together with one mind and forming a united alliance against God Himself by attacking His people. Their shared intent was to destroy Israel as a nation and erase the remembrance of its name. It applies to and was fulfilled in Jehoshaphat's time, when Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir threatened Judah.
That confederacy included Edom, the Ishmaelites, the Hagarenes, Gebal, and Amalek, who raised a tumult and formed crafty, secret plans against God's hidden, sheltered ones. Faced with that united peril, all Judah with their wives, children, and little ones fasted and prayed together unitedly with their eyes upon God, trusting His past interpositions and acts of deliverance to save His chosen ones. Their plea was for God not to keep silence but to put the enemies to confusion, shame, and destruction as He had done to the Midianites and to Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon, letting them be confounded, put to shame, and perish, so that men may know that He whose name alone is Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.