Obadiah 1:9 - Exposition

O Teman; Septuagint, οἱ ἐκ θαιμάν , "those from Thaeman;" Vulgate, a meridic , taking the word as an appellative; so the Chaldee. The southern district of Idumea was so called (see note on Amos 1:12 ). One of Job's friends, and the cleverest of them, was a Temanite ( Job 2:11 ). To the end that. This judicial blindness is inflicted in order that all may perish. By slaughter. Murder at the hands of the enemy. The LXX ; Vulgate, and Syriac connect these words with the following verse. But the Masoretic punctuation, as in the Anglican Version, is doubtless correct (see Keil).