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Obadiah 1

Obadiah 1:1

The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

concerning.

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …

Isaiah 21:11 The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of …

Isaiah 34:1-17 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the …

Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …

Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will punish all them …

Jeremiah 25:17,21 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the nations …

Jeremiah 49:17-22 Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goes by it shall …

Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …

Ezekiel 25:12-14 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house …

Ezekiel 35:3-15 And say to it, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am …

Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, …

Amos 1:11,12 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, …

Malachi 1:3,4 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …

We.

Jeremiah 49:14,15 I have heard a rumor from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent to …

Jeremiah 51:46 And lest your heart faint, and you fear for the rumor that shall …

Matthew 24:6 And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not …

Mark 13:7 And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be you not troubled: …

and an.

Isaiah 18:2,3 That sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes on …

Isaiah 30:4 For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

Arise.

Jeremiah 6:4,5 Prepare you war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe …

Jeremiah 50:9-15 For, see, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly …

Jeremiah 51:27,28 Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, …

Micah 2:13 The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have …

Obadiah 1:2

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

Numbers 24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for …

1 Samuel 2:7,8 The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up…

Job 34:25-29 Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, …

Psalm 107:39,40 Again, they are diminished and brought low through oppression, affliction, …

Isaiah 23:9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, …

Ezekiel 29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself …

Micah 7:10 Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her …

Luke 1:51,52 He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in …

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

pride.

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.

Proverbs 29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isaiah 10:14-16 And my hand has found as a nest the riches of the people: and as …

Isaiah 16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his …

Jeremiah 48:29,30 We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, …

Jeremiah 49:16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, …

Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build …

thou.

2 Kings 14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah …

2 Chronicles 25:12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry …

saith.

Isaiah 14:13-15 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will …

Isaiah 47:7,8 And you said, I shall be a lady for ever: so that you did not lay …

Jeremiah 49:4 Why glory you in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding …

Revelation 18:7,8 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …

Obadiah 1:4

Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

exalt.

Job 20:6,7 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach …

Job 39:27,28 Does the eagle mount up at your command, and make her nest on high…

Jeremiah 49:16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, …

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

among.

Isaiah 14:12-15 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …

Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify …

Amos 9:2 Though they dig into hell, there shall my hand take them; though …

Obadiah 1:5

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

if robbers.

Jeremiah 49:9 If grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave some gleaning …

how.

2 Samuel 1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Isaiah 14:12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how …

Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how …

Lamentations 1:1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she …

Zephaniah 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelled carelessly, that said in …

Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas …

if the.

Deuteronomy 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean …

Isaiah 17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive …

Isaiah 24:13 When thus it shall be in the middle of the land among the people, …

Micah 7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, …

some grapes. or, gleanings.

Obadiah 1:6

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

are the.

Psalm 139:1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.

Isaiah 10:13,14 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my …

Isaiah 45:3 And I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches …

Jeremiah 49:10 But I have made Esau bore, I have uncovered his secret places, and …

Jeremiah 50:37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the …

Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust …

how are his.

Daniel 2:22 He reveals the deep and secret things: he knows what is in the darkness, …

Obadiah 1:7

All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

the men of. The Chaldeans, whose agents they became in persecuting the Jews.

Psalm 55:12,13 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…

Jeremiah 4:30 And when you are spoiled, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself …

Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have …

Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders …

Ezekiel 23:22-25 Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise …

Revelation 17:12-17 And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received …

men that were at peace with thee. Heb. men of thy peace.

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say …

Jeremiah 38:22 And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house …

they that eat thy bread. Heb. the men of thy bread.

Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …

John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …

there is.

Isaiah 19:11-14 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …

Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …

Jeremiah 49:7 Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in …

Hosea 13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come on him: he is an unwise son…

in him. or, of it.

Obadiah 1:8

Shall I not in that day, saith the LORD, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

even.

Job 5:12-14 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot …

Psalm 33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing: he makes the …

Isaiah 19:3,13,14 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …

Isaiah 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this …

1 Corinthians 3:19,20 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, …

Obadiah 1:9

And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.

thy.

Psalm 76:5,6 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …

Isaiah 19:16,17 In that day shall Egypt be like to women: and it shall be afraid …

Jeremiah 49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings …

Jeremiah 50:36,37 A sword is on the liars; and they shall dote: a sword is on her mighty …

Amos 2:16 And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked …

Nahum 3:13 Behold, your people in the middle of you are women: the gates of …

O.

Genesis 36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Job 2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come …

Jeremiah 49:7,20 Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in …

Ezekiel 25:13 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand …

Amos 1:12 But I will send a fire on Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

every.

Isaiah 34:5-8 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down …

Isaiah 63:1-3 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …

mount.

Obadiah 1:21 And saviors shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; …

Deuteronomy 2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, …

Obadiah 1:10

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

violence.

Genesis 27:11,41 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is …

Numbers 20:14-21 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus said …

Psalm 83:5-9 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate …

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …

Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …

Ezekiel 25:12 Thus said the Lord GOD; Because that Edom has dealt against the house …

Ezekiel 35:5,6,12-15 Because you have had a perpetual hatred…

Amos 1:11 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, …

shame.

Psalm 69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Psalm 89:45 The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with …

Psalm 109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves …

Psalm 132:18 His enemies will I clothe with shame: but on himself shall his crown flourish.

Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have …

Jeremiah 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame has covered …

Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall …

Micah 7:10 Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her …

and.

Jeremiah 49:13,17-20 For I have sworn by myself, said the LORD, that Bozrah shall become …

Ezekiel 25:13,14 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand …

Ezekiel 35:6,7,15 Therefore, as I live, said the Lord GOD, I will prepare you to blood, …

Malachi 1:3,4 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …

Obadiah 1:11

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.

in the day that the.

2 Kings 24:10-16 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came …

2 Kings 25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives …

Jeremiah 52:28-30 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the …

captive his forces. or, his substance. cast.

Joel 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an …

Nahum 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children …

even.

Psalm 50:18 When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been …

Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …

Obadiah 1:12

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 of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

thou, etc. or, do not behold, etc. looked.

Psalm 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.

Psalm 37:13 The LORD shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.

Psalm 54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his …

Psalm 59:10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire …

Psalm 92:11 My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall …

Micah 4:11 Now also many nations are gathered against you, that say, Let her …

Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …

Matthew 27:40-43 And saying, You that destroy the temple, and build it in three days, …

rejoiced.

Job 31:29 If I rejoice at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up …

Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …

Proverbs 24:17,18 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad …

Lamentations 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …

Ezekiel 25:6,7 For thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have clapped your hands, …

Ezekiel 35:15 As you did rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because …

Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …

Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

thou have.

1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of …

Psalm 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things …

spoken proudly. Heb. magnified thy mouth.

Isaiah 37:24 By your servants have you reproached the Lord, and have said, By …

James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. …

2 Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through …

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; …

Revelation 13:5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; …

Obadiah 1:13

Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

looked.

2 Samuel 16:12 It may be that the LORD will look on my affliction, and that the …

Psalm 22:17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare on me.

Zechariah 1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: …

substance. or, forces.

Obadiah 1:14

Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

neither shouldest.

Amos 1:6,9 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, …

delivered up. or, shut up.

Psalm 31:8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set …

in the day.

Obadiah 1:12 But you should not have looked on the day of your brother in the …

Genesis 35:3 And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar …

Isaiah 37:3 And they said to him, Thus said Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, …

Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even …

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

the day.

Psalm 110:5,6 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day …

Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will punish all them …

Jeremiah 25:15-29 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …

Jeremiah 49:12 For thus said the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink …

Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …

Ezekiel 30:3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; …

Joel 3:11-14 Assemble yourselves, and come, all you heathen, and gather yourselves …

Micah 5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury on the heathen, such …

Zechariah 14:14-18 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the …

as.

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …

Psalm 137:8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, …

Ezekiel 35:15 As you did rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because …

Joel 3:7,8 Behold, I will raise them out of the place where you have sold them, …

Habakkuk 2:8 Because you have spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people …

Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what …

James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …

Obadiah 1:16

For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

as ye.

Psalm 75:8,9 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; …

Isaiah 49:25,26 But thus said the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be …

Isaiah 51:22,23 Thus said your Lord the LORD, and your God that pleads the cause …

Jeremiah 25:15,16,27-29 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me; Take the wine cup of …

Jeremiah 49:12 For thus said the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink …

Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my …

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: …

swallow down. or, sup up.

Isaiah 42:14 I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and refrained …

Habakkuk 1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the …

and they shall be.

Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …

Isaiah 29:7,8 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even …

Obadiah 1:17

But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

upon.

Isaiah 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation …

Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of …

shall be.

Jeremiah 46:28 Fear you not, O Jacob my servant, said the LORD: for I am with you…

Amos 9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I …

deliverance. or, they that escape.

Jeremiah 44:14,28 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land …

Ezekiel 7:16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains …

there shall be holiness. or, it shall be holy.

Isaiah 1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Isaiah 4:3,4 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that …

Isaiah 60:21 Your people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land …

Joel 3:17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my …

Zechariah 8:3 Thus said the LORD; I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the …

Zechariah 14:20,21 In that day shall there be on the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD…

Revelation 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, …

possess.

Isaiah 14:1,2 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, …

Joel 3:19-21 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, …

Amos 9:11-15 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, …

Obadiah 1:18

And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.

shall be.

Isaiah 10:17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame…

Isaiah 31:9 And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes …

Micah 5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the middle …

Zechariah 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of …

the house of Joseph.

2 Samuel 19:20 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold…

Ezekiel 37:16,19 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick, and write on it, For …

Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate…

Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: …

for stubble.

Psalm 83:6-15 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes…

Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes …

Isaiah 47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they …

Joel 2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, …

Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are …

1 Corinthians 3:12 Now if any man build on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, …

and there.

Obadiah 1:9,10,16 And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that …

Obadiah 1:19

And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

the south.

Numbers 24:18,19 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for …

Joshua 15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward …

Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal …

Amos 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, …

Malachi 1:4,5 Whereas Edom said, We are impoverished, but we will return and build …

the plain.

Joshua 13:2,3 This is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines, …

Joshua 15:33,45,46 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah…

Judges 1:18,19 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the …

Isaiah 11:13,14 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah …

Ezekiel 25:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out my hand …

Amos 1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds …

Zephaniah 2:4-7 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall …

Zechariah 9:5-7 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very …

the fields of Ephraim.

2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, …

Ezra 4:2,7-10,17 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and …

Psalm 69:35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that …

Jeremiah 31:4-6 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: …

Ezekiel 36:6-12,28 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the …

Ezekiel 37:21-25 And say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the …

Ezekiel 47:13-21 Thus said the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby you shall …

Ezekiel 48:1-9 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the …

Benjamin.

Joshua 13:25,31 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half …

Joshua 18:21-28 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according …

1 Chronicles 5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, …

Jeremiah 49:1 Concerning the Ammonites, thus said the LORD; Has Israel no sons? …

Amos 1:13 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, …

Micah 7:14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which …

Obadiah 1:20

And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

the captivity of this.

Jeremiah 3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel…

Jeremiah 33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant…

Ezekiel 34:12,13 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his …

Hosea 1:10,11 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of …

Amos 9:14,15 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and …

Zechariah 10:6-10 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house …

Zarephath.

1 Kings 17:9,10 Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Zidon, and dwell there: …

Luke 4:26 But to none of them was Elias sent, save to Sarepta, a city of Sidon, …

Sarepta. which is in Sepharad, shall possess. or, shall possess that which is in Sepharad, they shall possess.

Jeremiah 13:19 The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: …

Jeremiah 32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal …

Jeremiah 33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in …

Obadiah 1:21

And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.

saviours.

Judges 2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out …

Judges 3:9 And when the children of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised …

2 Kings 13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under …

Isaiah 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts …

Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament…

Joel 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of …

Micah 5:4-9 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty …

Zechariah 9:11-17 As for you also, by the blood of your covenant I have sent forth …

Zechariah 10:5-12 And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in …

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for …

James 5:20 Let him know, that he which converts the sinner from the error of …

to judge.

Psalm 149:5-9 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud on their beds…

Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under …

Luke 22:30 That you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on …

1 Corinthians 6:2,3 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the …

Revelation 19:11-13 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat …

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them…

and the.

Psalm 2:6-9 Yet have I set my king on my holy hill of Zion…

Psalm 22:28 For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations.

Psalm 102:15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings …

Isaiah 9:6,7 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government …

Daniel 2:35,44 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, …

Daniel 7:14,27 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that …

Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall …

Matthew 6:10,13 Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven…

Luke 1:32,33 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and …

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying…

Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the …


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Obadiah 1

Oba 1:1. We have heard a rumour, &c.- See Jer 49:14. Oba 1:3. Thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock] He that dwelleth, &c.-hath said in his heart, &c. St. Jerome informs us, that all the southern part of Palestine was full of caverns scooped out of the rocks, and of subterraneous abodes, where the inhabitants dwelt. The Edomites are here addressed by the prophet as inhabiting these caverns.

Oba 1:5. If thieves came, &c.- When thieves come to thee, when nightly robbers, when thou art laid to rest, will they not plunder as much as shall seem good to them? When the grape-gatherers shall come to thee, will they leave no grapes? Houbigant.

Oba 1:7. All the men, &c.- They have driven thee even to the border; all the men of thy confederacy have betrayed thee; have prevailed over thee: The men of thy peace, of thy bread, have spread a share under thee: There is no understanding in thee.

Oba 1:11. In the day that thou stoodest, &c.- Thou stoodest on the other side in the day that strangers, &c. The prophet considers the Chaldeans as preparing for the siege of Jerusalem, and demanding succours from the neighbouring people; particularly the Edomites.

Oba 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. Oba 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 us, and are in all considerations very bad men, fall under some extraordinary misery, and suffer as much as they desired to see us suffer. Thou shouldest not have rejoiced over the children of Judah, &c. If our joy has a mixture of insolence toward the persons of those who suffer (how justly soever), as men who have done us wrong, and so we are glad of their misery as a revenge for what they have done against us, we exceed our commission, and have no kind of warrant for such rejoicing. No degree of malice, or ill nature, or wickedness in other men, can excuse us for a defect of that charity and meekness and compassion, which ought ever to be inseparable from our religion.

Oba 1:16. For as ye have drunk, &c.- For as I have given my wine to drink in my holy mountain, so, &c.

Oba 1:17. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions- Shall possess what they had before possessed; that is to say, their return from the Babylonish captivity.

Oba 1:20. And the captivity of this host- And those very children of Israel, who had been captives to the Canaanites, even to Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem, who shall have been in Sepharad, [that is to say, as some suppose, a province of Babylon] shall possess, &c. Houbigant. The prophet here foretels what might seem almost incredible; namely, that those very Jews who shall go into captivity, shall hereafter possess all the countries here mentioned; particularly those of the Edomites, whose kingdom they should destroy. All which, by universal agreement, was fulfilled in the primary sense under the Maccabees, who are literally meant by the saviours or deliverers mentioned in the next verse: but these were types of the Lord Jesus Christ and his Gospel ministers, and of the increase of his work unto the establishment of his universal reign.

REFLECTIONS.-1st, The vision of Obadiah concerning Edom, the inveterate enemy of God's people of old, and probably the type and figure of all the antichristian foes, whether Papal, Pagan, or Mahometan, which, like these of old, shall utterly be destroyed at the last.

1. An ambassador is sent among the heathen, to gather them together to battle against Idumea; either the prophet, or some other minister of Providence, or a herald dispatched by Nebuchadnezzar to summon his warriors to assemble, and his confederates to come to his assistance; see Jer 49:14-15 for when God has work to do, he has in his hands instruments ever ready.

2. Edom shall be ruined, and all her confidences shall fail, for God is her enemy. Her heathen neighbours shall treat her as little and contemptible; and, though she flatters herself that they have the same high opinion of her as she has of herself, her pride hath deceived her, as it generally does those who fancy that others value them as much as they do themselves. She thought, because her situation was strong, amid high rocks, where nature as well as art contributed to her security, that she could there defy the impotent attacks of all her foes. Thus sinners, secure in self-confidence, despise the wrath which is ready to overtake them: but, though she was as high on the rock as the eagle's nest, yea, though her battlements reached to the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord, before whose judgments the proudest sinner cannot stand. Her wealth shall become a prey to her enemies; and the ravages of the Chaldeans shall utterly spoil the country. Though robbers by night plunder a house, they leave some things behind, and the most careful grape-gatherers cannot glean every cluster; but these shall ransack every secret place, and spare nothing, leaving the land bare as a rock. Do the Edomites place dependence on their allies? they will disappoint their expectations: though they received their ambassadors with respect, and attended them to their borders, or joined their forces as auxiliaries, and marched to the borders of Edom as if to fight their enemies, receiving subsidies and provision from the Edomites, and pretending firm attachment to their cause, yet will they betray it, desert to their invaders, and turn their arms against those who hired them; who, while they lean on them as a support, shall feel from their pretended friendly arm, a secret mortal wound. Not all the wisdom of their wise men, nor the courage of their warriors, will then be able to avail them: God hath infatuated the counsels of the one, and panic fear seizes the others, doomed to the slaughter; so that not a man of them shall escape. Thus when God contends, he will surely overcome: our wisdom will prove folly, our strength weakness, our confidence delusion, when he is our foe.

2nd, If Edom's doom be heavy, her sins have provoked it; and, amidst all the other iniquities of that devoted people, none come deeper into the account than their violence against their brother Jacob, whose relation to them by blood, and the peculiar favour which God had shewn him, should have engaged their affection and assistance in the day of calamity; but too often we see that nearest relations shew us the least regard.

1. They had, with most malicious enmity, rejoiced in the ruin of Israel; and, in a variety of instances, helped forward their distress. God tells them what they should not have done, and therein upbraids them with what they had done. Instead of affording the Jews a friendly hand, or at least commiserating their calamity, and dropping a tear of tender compassion over their afflictions, they stood on the other side, not merely unconcerned spectators, but pleased with the scene, and helping forward the ruin of Jerusalem, when the Chaldeans entered the city, led the inhabitants captive, and divided the spoil; nay, they insulted the unhappy sufferers, and mocked at their distress. Eager to plunder, they rushed with the besiegers into the city, and pillaged whatever they laid their hands upon; and, with savage inhumanity, stood in the cross-way to seize the few who escaped from the Chaldean sword, and murdered them in cold blood, or delivered them up to their cruel enemies. For such atrocious wickedness,

2. Vengeance, such as their crimes deserved, descends upon them. The day of the Lord, that great and terrible day of wrath, approaches, when he will recompense the wickedness of the heathen, and Edom shall drink deep of the cup of his indignation. Since judgment had begun at the house of God, Edom must not think to escape! As thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; when other heathen nations are destroyed, Edom shall fall in the general ruin; and, while the Jews were only captives for a while, and would be again restored, and preserved still as a people, the Edomites' shame would be continual; they shall be cut off for ever, and be as though they had not been, their nation extirpated, and not a trace of them remaining. And thus shall the enemies of Christ and his church be at last destroyed for ever; and every antichristian foe shall be cast as a millstone into the sea, and sink, and never rise up again. Rev 18:21.

3rdly, The same cloud, which looked so dark and terrible toward the Egyptians, afforded brightness and comfort to Israel's camp. Thus the destruction of the church's enemies, before threatened, is accompanied with great and precious promises to her friends, in which, to the latest ages, they may rejoice.

1. Upon mount Zion shall be deliverance. God will raise up a deliverer for them in distress, as, Cyrus, and afterwards Judas Maccabaeus; but a greater deliverance than these seems here intended, even that which Jesus hath obtained for his faithful people from the bondage of Satan, sin, and death.

2. And there shall be holiness, in the Gospel church, in consequence of the deliverance obtained for them: all Christ's faithful people shall partake of the sanctifying influences of his Spirit, and be made pure within; this being a distinguished part of the salvation which he has wrought, that we should be delivered from sin, as well as guilt and punishment.

3. The church of true believers shall be extended far and wide. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions; as was spiritually the case when, by the preaching of the ministers of the Gospel, the gentiles gave themselves up unto the Lord: then, like fire, the word of God spread on every side, the hearts of sinners were pierced, their most beloved sins consumed, and the borders of the church were then greatly enlarged: and they shall continue to be so, till at last they shall spread from pole to pole; when the saviours, those who publish the glad tidings of salvation, shall go forth, clothed with divine energy, convincing men of sin, and turning them unto the Lord; and then the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ.

Some suppose that the prophesy refers also to the conversion of the Jews in the last days, and to their return to their own land: that their borders will then be greatly enlarged; and, judgment being executed upon all the persecuting powers, Papal, Pagan, and Mahometan, Christ shall reign on mount Zion, and over his ancients gloriously. This, however, at least we are sure of, that the day of the Lord will come, which shall burn as an oven, when all the proud persecutors, and all who do wickedly, shall be consumed together, and God's despised and persecuted but faithful saints shall reign with Jesus their king in glory everlasting.

Jon 1:2. Go to Nineveh-and cry against it- Or preach. It means the same as to prophesy; and therefore Houbigant so renders it.

Jon 1:3. Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish- Which, according to Josephus, was Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia. Others say Tartessus in Spain. From the presence of the Lord, Houbigant reads, Through fear of the Lord. What he feared is shewn in chap. Jon 4:2. He hoped that if he was at a greater distance God would send some other prophet to preach repentance to the city of Nineveh. Grotius says, that the expression means, "From the land of Israel," the immediate residence of God.

Jon 1:5. And cried every man unto his god- The mariners were idolaters, as appears from the next verse. They invoked each one his idol, or the tutelary deity of his country. The profound sleep of Jonah seems to have been caused by his weariness, labour, and anxiety; "Not the sleep of security, but of sorrow," says St. Jerome; like that of the apostles, Mat 26:40.

Jon 1:7. Come, and let us cast lots- The sailors betake themselves to this practice, because they see that there is something supernatural in the tempest; whence they conclude that it arose on account of some wicked person who failed with them. Thus the sailors who carried Diagoras in their vessel concluded that the tempest which assailed them was principally on account of this philosopher, who openly professed atheism. God is pleased so to order the lots, that Jonah is found to be the guilty person.

Jon 1:8. For whose cause- Wherefore, or on what account. Houbigant.

Jon 1:9. And I fear the Lord, &c.- Rather, I fear Jehovah, &c. Jehovah being the peculiar name of the true God, by which he was distinguished from those who had the names of gods and lords among the heathen. The words immediately following are a farther distinction between the true God and the gods of the heathen. See Lowth, and Grotius.

Jon 1:11. Wrought, and was tempestuous- Grew more and more tempestuous: and so Jon 1:13.

Jon 1:14. Let us not perish, &c.- "Impute not to us his death: we only obey thy orders, and do that which thou thyself hast ordained. It is the necessity of a just defence which obliges us to cast: him into the sea, to preserve us from the imminent danger whereunto we are brought by his means."

Jon 1:16. And offered a sacrifice, &c.- Houbigant, following the Hebrew, Vulgate, &c. ends the chapter with this verb.

Jon 1:17. Now the Lord had prepared a great fish- That there are fishes large enough to swallow a man, there can be no question; the Scripture calls this a great fish, in the general, and therefore there is no need to confine it to a whale. But we shall speak more on this subject, when we come to Mat 12:40. See also Calmet's dissertation on the subject, and Scheuchzer. We may just observe farther, that the Hebrew language has no one word to express what we call a natural day: so that what the Greeks express by νυχθημερον, they denote by a day and a night: therefore the space of time consisting of one whole revolution of twenty-four hours, and part of two others, is fitly expressed in that language by three days and three nights. Such a space of time our blessed Lord lay in the grave; that is to say, one whole νυχθημερον, or natural day, and part of two others: and we may thence conclude that Jonah, who was an eminent figure of him in this particular, continued no longer in the belly of the fish. But on this point we shall say more when we come to speak of our Saviour's resurrection.

REFLECTIONS.-1st, We have here,

1. The prophet's name and parentage: יונה Jonah, a dove; God's prophets should be harmless as these, and, like the dove of Noah, bring the olive-branch of peace, the tidings of mercy and salvation to perishing sinners: his father's name was אמתי Ammittai, my truth; for prophets must be sons of truth faithful to their office, and steady to maintain the truths of God.

2. His mission. The word of the Lord came unto him, bidding him arise, and go to Nineveh, that great city, the metropolis of the Assyrian empire, where wickedness abounded, as in great cities it usually does, the multitudes of sinners serving to embolden and stimulate each other to commit iniquity. It was now ripe for vengeance, and he must go and cry aloud in the streets, to give the inhabitants warning of their approaching doom unless they repented.

3. His disobedience. He rose up to flee from the presence of the Lord, from the chosen land, where God was pleased in an especial manner to reveal himself, to Tarshish; either Tarsus in Cilicia, or the sea, determined to ship himself in the first vessel, and fly any where rather than go to Nineveh. Either he dreaded the dangers of the service; or rather, as he suggests, chap. Jon 4:2 he knew God's compassions, that the Ninevites would be forgiven, and himself be counted a false prophet. A ship was ready to sail as soon as he arrived at Joppa, and he instantly paid the fare and embarked. Providence seemed to concur with his desires: but the ready way is not always the right way; and they who fly from duty, whatever present relief they may gain, are only treasuring up for themselves greater sorrow.

2nd, They who think to fly from God will soon perceive the folly of the attempt.

1. God sends a mighty tempest on the ship in which the prophet sailed, so that it seemed ready each moment to founder. Such storms does sin raise in the conscience; and the poor sinner in despondence is ready to give himself up for lost, little suspecting that the very tempest, which he imagines will be his ruin, is only designed to drive him to the haven of rest.

2. Jonah alone seemed unconcerned about the danger. The mariners, affrighted, ran to their prayers, and cried to their idols for help: for the imminent views of death will sometimes bring those to their knees who never thought of bowing them before: and, life being dearer to them than all besides, they readily part with their merchandise, and cast it into the sea to lighten the ship. Worldly goods are nothing worth when death stares men in the face: what folly then, for the sake of them, to make shipwreck of faith and a good conscience, and lose an immortal soul, infinitely more precious than the dying body! When will men be wise? The roaring billows, which terrified the heathen seamen, joined perhaps with the grating sorrows of his mind, served but to rock Jonah asleep: he of all that company appeared the only person insensible, though none had so much cause to be alarmed. Into such stupefaction does sin sometimes lull the conscience of the back-slider. He appears to have lost all apprehension of danger; and even the judgments which make others tremble, he seems to pass over unaffected. From such blindness and hardness of heart, good Lord, deliver us!

3. The ship-master rouses him from his slumbers, and upbraids him with his insensibility. What meanest thou, O sleeper? Strange that a prophet of the Lord should need reproof even from the mouth of a heathen! Arise, call upon thy God: delay is ruinous when danger urges. They had cried to their gods in vain; perhaps his was more able to help them; if so be that God will think upon us that we perish not, as, without immediate help, they knew they must. Note; No danger is so great, but, if God think upon us, he is able to save us to the uttermost.

4. The storm increasing, notwithstanding all their endeavours and prayers, they began to suspect that there might be among them some atrocious sinner, on whose account the divine displeasure pursued them. As was usual with the heathens, therefore, they resolved to inquire which of them it was, and to refer the decision to the lot; and God so ordained that the lot fell upon Jonah. Thus is the iniquity of the sinner often found out by means that he never suspected, and when he thinks himself most secure and best concealed from detection.

5. They hereupon strictly interrogate the prophet. The lot had said, This is the man, and he is called upon to acknowledge his crime, that they might know for whose cause, or for what cause, this evil was upon them; what he had done to provoke God; what was his occupation; whence he came; and to what country he belonged. Note; In order to get our troubles removed, we must search diligently into our sins, which are the cause of them.

6. Jonah, without reserve, makes confession of his crime; and probably, now convicted in his own conscience, desired to take to himself all the shame and punishment which he felt that he had deserved. He declares himself by nation and religion a Hebrew, which was an aggravation of his guilt; his occupation was that of a prophet of the Most High, I fear the Lord Jehovah, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land; which, though it added to his sin, yet he owns to God's glory, and in order to the instruction of the heathen mariners, who blindly worshipped many gods, instead of the one true and living Jehovah. His crime he owns: he had told them that he fled from the presence of the Lord, rebellious to his command, and running from his duty; for which this judgment was sent. Note; When we have sinned, nothing remains but to justify God in his judgments, and with penitence to bow into the dust.

7. The seamen appear exceedingly affected with his narrative. Probably they had heard what the God of the Hebrews had done of old; and this increased their terrors. With just upbraidings, therefore, of the prophet, who by his wickedness had brought them into this imminent danger, they expostulate with him, Why hast thou done this? why didst thou so foolishly attempt to fly? and why embark with us, to involve us with thyself in danger. Note; (1.) They who profess religion, and act unsuitably, deserve to be reproached. (2.) None know how extensive and dangerous the consequence of even a single sin may be.

3rdly, The criminal is detected by his own confession; the question is, what is to be done with him?

1. They refer the matter to himself. Since he was a prophet of the God of the Hebrews, he best could inform them what was the likeliest means to appease his anger, and thereby, obtain deliverance from the storm, which raged more furiously than ever. Note; When by our sins we have raised a storm of wrath around us, it highly imports us to inquire how it may be appeased.

2. Jonah pronounces his own doom. He well knew himself to be the troubler, and that, till he was cast into the sea, there could be no hope of the storm's abating; and therefore he bids them throw him overboard: he would not be his own destroyer; yet, conscious that he deserved to die, he offers himself for execution; and chooses rather himself to perish, than involve the innocent in destruction. Note; (1.) They who truly know the evil of sin, and are deeply humbled under it, are ready to submit to any shame or suffering, whereby God may be glorified, and reparation be made to the injured. (2.) When sin has raised a storm, we must never hope for peace till the accursed thing is removed.

3. Very unwilling to execute this grievous sentence, the mariners rowed hard for land; but the more they strove, the more the sea wrought, and was tempestuous; so that despair took place in every countenance, and nothing remained but this last experiment, with which they felt the more reluctance to comply on account of the noble simplicity and deep humiliation which now probably appeared in the penitent prophet. Note; (1.) When a gracious man, overtaken with a fault, with frank acknowledgment takes shame to himself, he is entitled to our greatest compassion; nor should we ever by severity aggravate his distress. (2.) There is no striving against God's counsels: his will must be done.

4. Before they execute the dread decree, they present their importunate supplications to God, that he would not impute to them innocent blood, nor cause them to perish for taking away this man's life; when they had desired to know his will, and acted now, according to the best of their light, in conformity thereto; it appearing to be his pleasure that Jonah should be cast into the sea. Note; (1.) In all our emergencies we must have recourse to God in prayer. (2.) When we follow, according to our best knowledge, under the guidance of Divine Providence, what appears to be God's will, we are bound with satisfaction to trust him with the issue.

5. Jonah is cast into the sea, and, to the astonishment of the mariners, instantly the storm ceased. They feared the Lord exceedingly, amazed at the sudden change; and, filled with thankfulness, offered an immediate sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, and made vows of future oblations whenever they should reach the shore. Thus, sometimes, our greatest loss proves our greatest gain. The acquaintance which they hereby gained with Israel's God amply compensated for the damage that they had sustained by the storm.

6. By a miracle the prophet's life is preserved. God, who designed not to destroy but save him, had prepared a great fish which swallowed him alive; and by almighty power he was preserved three days and three nights, at least part of three days, unhurt in the fish's stomach, a monument of divine mercy, and an illustrious type of him, who, when he had given his life a ransom for others, lay so long in the grave, and rose again the third day, Mat 12:40.


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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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