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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Obadiah 1:11-14

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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Obadiah 1:12-13

God reinforced the seriousness of the Edomites’ sin by condemning it in parallel terminology eight times (Obadiah 1:12-14). Compare the same parallel structure in Obadiah 1:7 where there is a threefold positive reiteration. There is also a pun in the Hebrew text since the word for "disaster" (’edam) is similar to the word "Edom" (’edom). Hostile attitudes more than physical violence were Edom’s sins against the Israelites on this occasion. Blood ties should have transcended even covenant ties.... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Obadiah 1:10-16

10-16.—THE DIVINE SENTENCE JUSTIFIED BY EDOM’S GUILT.This justification takes the form of a warning against a repetition of the crimes which have already called forth the sentence of Divine wrath against Edom. Various acts of hostility and treachery towards Israel are specified by the prophet, in a manner to lead to the feeling that though his tone is prohibitory, he is recalling instances of past malignity on Edom’s part, as types of what might be found in the future.(10) For thy violence . .... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:1-21

EDOM AND ISRAELObadiah 1:1-21IF the Book of Obadiah presents us with some of the most difficult questions of criticism, it raises besides one of the hardest ethical problems in all the vexed history of Israel.Israel’s fate has been to work out their calling in the world through antipathies rather than by sympathies, but of all the antipathies which the nation experienced none was more bitter and more constant than that towards Edom. The rest of Israel’s enemies rose and fell like waves:... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Obadiah 1:12

1:12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became {i} a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.(i) When the Lord deprived them of their former dignity, and delivered them to be carried into captivity. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-16

"For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. (11) In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. (12) But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:12

Though shalt not look, &c., or thou shouldst not, &c. It is a reprehension for what they had done, and at the same time a declaration that these things should not pass unpunished. (Challoner) --- God admonishes, and at the same time insinuates that the Idumeans would act quite the reverse. (Worthington) --- Magnify. Literally, thou shalt not speak arrogantly against the children of Juda, as insulting them in their distress, (Challoner) like people mocking. When they shall be... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Obadiah 1:1-16

1-16 This prophecy is against Edom. Its destruction seems to have been typical, as their father Esau's rejection; and to refer to the destruction of the enemies of the gospel church. See the prediction of the success of that war; Edom shall be spoiled, and brought down. All the enemies of God's church shall be disappointed in the things they stay themselves on. God can easily lay those low who magnify and exalt themselves; and will do it. Carnal security ripens men for ruin, and makes the ruin... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Obadiah 1:10-16

The Punishment a Consequence of Idumea's Hostility v. 10. For thy violence against thy brother Jacob, the two nations being so closely related through their common ancestor, but the Edomites having continued the family feud practically from the time of Esau, shame shall cover thee, so that Idumea would be disgraced before the eyes of the world, and thou shalt be cut off forever, in an extermination demanded by God's will and Law. v. 11. In the day that thou stoodest on the other side,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Obadiah 1:1-21

THE PROPHECY1 Vision of Obadiah:Thus saith the Lord Jehovah concerning Edom;1We have heard tidings from Jehovah,We have heard tidings from Jehovah,And2 an ambassador is sent forth among the nations.3Arise ye,4 and let us arise against her to battle!2 Behold, I make thee small among the nations;Despised art thou exceedingly.3 The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee,Dweller in the refuges of the cliff,His lofty habitation;5Who saith in his heart:Who will bring me down to the earth?4 Though... read more