Nations around. (Haydock) --- Josephus ([Antiquities?] x. 11.) does not specify Edom. But the prophets had announced their destruction, effected by Nabuchodonosor, while the main part of his army besieged Tyre. (Calmet)
Verse Obadiah 1:15. _THE DAY OF THE LORD_ IS _NEAR_] God will not associate thee with him in the judgments which he inflicts. _Thou_ also art _guilty_, and shalt have _thy punishment_ in due course wi...
FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR UPON ALL THE PAGAN - The prophet once more enforces his warning by preaching judgment to come. “The day of the Lord” was already known Joel 1:15; Joel 2:1, Joel 2:31, a...
OBADIAH 1:15 A, OBADIAH 1:16. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS. The Day of Yahweh approaches; Judah has already drunk her cup of suffering (_cf._ Jeremiah 25:15;...
OBADIAH 1:1 B. THE DESERVED DOWNFALL OF EDOM. The prophet declares that interpretation of current events which Yahweh has revealed to him. Other nations are combining against Edom (Obadiah 1:1) and Ya...
THE DAY OF THE LORD. See note on Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 2:17. The prophecy is now enlarged, and includes all the nations who were Israel's enemies. AS. according as. This prophecy was fulfilled, so far a...
_The day of the Lord_ The order of the words, "for near is the day of the Lord," accords with the fact that the day of the Lord is here spoken of as something already known and familiar. It was first...
After the description in Obadiah 1:11, of the fault for which Edom was to be punished, the prophet returns in these two verses to the subject of Obadiah 1:2, and completes the description of the punis...
_THE DAY OF THE LORD IS NEAR-- OBADIAH 1:15-20:_ God reminded Edom of His law that you reap what you sow. "The day of the Lord" was near for all nations. It was time for Edom to pay in full for what s...
THE JUSTICE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON EDOM TEXT: Obadiah 1:10-16 10 For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever. 11 In the day that thou stoo...
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. FOR - resumptive in connection with , wherein Edom...
THE *LORD IS KING OBADIAH _PHILIP SMITH_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF OBADIAH AUTHOR This is the shortest book in the *Old Testament. Obadiah means ‘the servant of *Yahweh’. Or it means ‘the person who giv...
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 a...
כִּֽי ־קָרֹ֥וב יֹום ־יְהוָ֖ה עַל ־כָּל ־הַ
EDOM AND ISRAEL Obadiah 1:1 IF 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...
For the day (k) 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. (k) When he will summon all the heathen, and se...
"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...
By saying that _the day of Jehovah was nigh upon all nations, _the Prophet may be regarded as reasoning from the greater to the less: “If God will not spare other nations, how canst thou escape his ha...
Edom is frequently spoken of in the prophets. This people, who, as well as Jacob, were descended from Isaac, had an inveterate hatred to the posterity of the younger son who were favoured as the peopl...
FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD [IS] NEAR UPON ALL THE HEATHEN,.... That is, the time was at hand, fixed and determined by the Lord, and he had spoken of by his prophets, when he would punish all the Heathens...
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. Ver. 15. _For the day of the Lord is near, &c._] "T...
_For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen_ The sacred writers call that _the day_ of any persons, in which they do or suffer any thing very remarkable. Thus, Obadiah 1:13, _the day of thy...
The Punishment a Consequence of Idumea's Hostility...
For the day of the Lord, when His punishment would descend upon all His enemies, IS NEAR UPON ALL THE HEATHEN; AS THOU HAST DONE, IT SHALL BE DONE UNTO THEE; THY REWARD, what he had earned by his wick...
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 predicti...
FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD, of just revenge from the Lord upon this cruelty of Edom, the time which the Lord hath appointed for the punishing of this and other nations, is near upon all the heathen; whic...
Obadiah 1:15 day H3117 LORD H3068 nations H1471 near H7138 done H6213 (H8804) done H6213 (H8735) reprisal...
THE DAY OF YHWH WILL RESULT IN THE CARRYING OUT OF GOD'S JUDGMENT AND WILL BRING ABOUT THE VINDICATION OF GOD'S PEOPLE (OBADIAH 1:15). But what they had overlooked was that one day YHWH would call the...
CONTENTS: Edom's humiliation because of sin against God's people. CHARACTERS: God, Obadiah. CONCLUSION: If men in their pride and carnal security dare to challenge omnipotence, their challenge will...
_But thou shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother._ THE DOOM OF EDOM The commentary on this prophecy is supplied by every traveller who has explored the recesses of the mountain of Esau. E...
OBADIAH—NOTE ON OBADIAH 1:15 The Edomites should stop harming God’s people because (FOR) the day of God’s universal judgment is near. On THE DAY OF THE LORD, see note on...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Obadiah 1:15. For] Resumptive from Obadiah 1:10. Righteous retribution in kind. OBADIAH 1:16.] The greatest crime the desecration of the holy mountain by drinking carousals, for whi...
Tonight shall we turn now to Obadiah. Who Obadiah was, or where he came from, when he prophesied, nobody knows for sure. There have been a lot of guesses as to who Obadiah actually was, but they are a...
Ezekiel 30:3; Ezekiel 35:15; Habakkuk 2:8; James 2:13; Jeremiah 25:15
The day — The time which the Lord hath appointed for the punishing of this, and other nations. As thou hast done — Perfidiously, cruelly, and ravenously, against Jacob....
OBADIAH — If the Book of Obadiah is inspired Scripture, then why is it not quoted in the NT? (For a discussion of this question, see Ecclesiastes 1:1.) OBADIAH — Is the prophecy of Obadiah simply an...