Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14
CRITICAL NOTES.] Obadiah 1:10. Cause of ruin] Violence against the seed of Jacob. In different ways. Obadiah 1:11.] For taking a position. Stoodest] not as a looker-on, but as an enemy; an attitude of hostility, not sympathy. Obadiah 1:12.] For malicious pleasure in three forms—looking on with delight; rejoiced without reserve; boasting, spoken proudly, lit. to make the mouth broad or open; a gesture of contempt and derision (Psalms 35:21, Isaiah 57:4 : cf. Ezekiel 35:13, and Revelation 13:6).... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Obadiah 1:12
Thou shouldest not have looked with secret joy and satisfaction to thy eyes and mind; if thou wouldst have looked, it should have been with tears and grief, not with joy and gladness at the sight: so the word, Psalms 37:0; Psalms 44:7; Proverbs 29:16. On the day; on the affliction and sad misery which fell upon thy brother Jacob; so day in Scripture, thus absolutely put, doth often signify, Psalms 37:13; Micah 7:4. Became a stranger; having by the misery of war been made a captive, and lost his... read more