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Psalms 83:12

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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:11Rank 1 from verse 12
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    11Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

  2. Psalms 74:7–8Rank 2 from verse 12
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    7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

    8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

  3. Psalms 83:4Rank 3 from verse 12
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    4They 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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Psalms 83:12

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

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13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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