Obadiah 1:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-16

When we have read Edom's doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done? What is the ground of God's controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom; they were a sinful people, and a people laden with iniquity. But that one single crime which is laid to their charge, as filling their measure and bringing this ruin upon them, that for which they here stand indicted, of which they are convicted, and for which they are condemned, is the injury they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:10

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob ,.... Which is aggravated: by being against Jacob, an honest plain hearted man, and whom the Lord loved; his brother, his own brother, a twin brother, yea, his only brother; yet this is to be understood, not so much of the violence of Esau against Jacob personally, though there is an allusion to that; as of the violence of the posterity of the one against the posterity of the other; and not singly of the violence shown at the destruction of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Obadiah 1:10

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob - By this term the Israelites in general are understood; for the two brothers, - Jacob, from whom sprang the Jews, and Esau, from whom sprang the Idumeans or Edomites, - are here put for the whole people or descendants of both. We need not look for particular cases of the violence of the Edomites against the Jews. Esau, their founder, was not more inimical to his brother Jacob, who deprived him of his birthright, than the Edomites uniformly were to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Obadiah 1:10

Verse 10 The Prophet here sets forth the reason why God would deal so severely and dreadfully with the Idumeans. Had he simply prophesied of their destruction, it would have been an important matter; for the Jews might have thereby known that their ruin was not chance, but the scourge of God; they might have known that they themselves were with others chastised by God, and this would have been a useful instruction to them: but what brought them the chief consolation was to hear, that they were... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:1-16

Part I. THE DESTRUCTION OF EDOM, AND THE CAUSE THEREOF. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob. The special action to which Obadiah alludes, and which he particularizes in the following verses, occurred at the time of the invasion of Judaea by Philistines and Arabians during the reign of Jehoram, when the Edomites sided with the enemy, and acted as the prophet intimates ( 2 Chronicles 21:16 , etc.; see Introduction, § III .). The iniquity of such conduct is aggravated by the fact that the victim was the "brother Jacob," who was commanded... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-11

Social cruelty: 2. Perpetrated against a brother specially offensive to God. "For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever," etc. The cruelty here is not the cruelty merely of one man against another, but of one who is in close natural relationship to the other—children of the same parents. Strange as it may be, it is nevertheless a fact that a Brother's enmity is often the most savage and unrelenting. How can this fact be accounted... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

§ 2. The cause of Edom ' s destruction . This punishment falls upon her as the result of the malice and unfriendliness which she has displayed to wards Israel in the time of calamity, in that she rejoiced at her sister's disaster and took part with her enemies. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

A neighbour's cruelty. The prophet deeply feels the injury which Esau has inflicted upon Israel, and the language of this passage gives evidence of a heart deeply aggrieved and wronged and distressed. We have, indeed, in these verses an example of the length to which the cruelty of man can go. I. THE DETAILS OF THIS CRUELTY . 1 . Edom is charged with siding with foreigners against Jerusalem in the day when the city was assaulted and taken. 2 . And with rejoicing over... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

Edom's cruelty. Here one of the great sins of Edom is denounced in very forcible language. Notice the succession of pointed sentences. "Thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother." The eyes were in the transgression. Hagar, we read, could not look upon Ishmael in his distress. But Edom could look on afflicted Jacob. "Thou shouldest not have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction." The emotions were in the transgression. "Love rejoiceth not in... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Obadiah 1:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Obadiah 1:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Obadiah 1:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:1-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Obadiah 1:10-14

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