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The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:12-16

Social cruelty: 3. As working in various forms from generation to generation. "But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger," etc. Here we have a sketch of the workings of this cruelty towards Judah when he was in great distress, suffering, and peril. I. CRUELTY HAS VARIOUS FORMS OF WORKING . Look at the forms here. 1. The lack of sympathy when Judah was in distress. "Thou shouldest not have looked," etc. Greatly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:14

The climax of injury is the cutting off of fugitives, and delivering them into captivity. Neither shouldst thou have stood in the crossway; and stand not thou is the crossway . The Edomites, as neighbours, would know all the passes into the wilderness by which the Judaeans would seek to escape. Neither shouldst thou have delivered up; and deliver not up ; Septuagint, νηδὲ συγκλείσῃς ,, "shut not up;" Vulgate, et non concludes. So Pusey, "shut not up," i.e. with the enemy,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Obadiah 1:12-14

But thou shouldest not - , rather it means, and can only mean , “And look not (i. e., gaze not with pleasure) on the day of thy brother in the day of his becoming a stranger ; and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; and enlarge not thy mouth in the day of distress. Enter not into the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; look not, thou too, on his affliction in the day of his calamity; and lay not hands on his substance in the day of his calamity;... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Obadiah 1:13-14

Obadiah 1:13-14. Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people, &c. Thou shouldest not have entered into the cities of my people by way of spoiling them, or of feasting thy eyes with the slaughter, when their enemies made themselves masters of them. Neither shouldest thou have stood in the cross-way Or, in the goings forth; to cut off those that did escape Thou shouldest not have posted thyself in the passages that were left unguarded by the enemy, in order to cut off... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:1-14

OBADIAH’S MESSAGEEdom’s sin (1-14)The Edomites thought their land was unconquerable because of the defence system that they had built throughout their rocky mountains. Obadiah warns them that no matter how high up the mountains they go or how strong they make their defences, nothing will save them from the coming destruction. Already the enemy armies are preparing to attack Edom (1-4).A house burglar steals only what he wants, and leaves the remainder of the goods in the house; a vineyard... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Obadiah 1:14

stood in the crossway. Referring to some antecedent event by Figure of speech Hysteresis ( App-6 ). crossway = fork of the roads, or a mountain pass. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Obadiah 1:12-14

Obadiah 1:12-14. But thou shouldest not have looked on— Houbigant reads the verbs in these verses in the imperative mood. Look not—rejoice not, &c. Instead of, Nor have laid hands on, &c. Obadiah 1:13. Houbigant reads, Be not thou sent against his army, when the day of his ruin is at hand. We have, under no affliction or calamity, more need of support and assistance from the good Spirit of God how to behave ourselves, than in those seasons, when they who have most maliciously persecuted... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Obadiah 1:14

14. stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his—Judah's. that did escape—The Jews naturally fled by the crossways. (MAURER translates, "narrow mountain passes") well known to them, to escape to the desert, and through Edom to Egypt; but the Edomites stood ready to intercept the fugitives and either kill or "deliver them up" to the foe. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Obadiah 1:10-14

II. EDOM’S CRIMES AGAINST JUDAH Obadiah 1:10-14Obadiah 1:10 summarizes what Obadiah 1:11-14 detail in the same way Obadiah 1:1 did in relation to Obadiah 1:2-9. read more