How are the things of Esau searched out! the spoiling of the country being complete in every respect. How are his hidden things sought up! so that not one of its hiding-places would be unexplored by the foe.
HOW ARE THE THINGS OF ESAU SEARCHED OUT! - literally, “How are Esau, out searched!” i. e., Esau, as a whole and in all its parts and in all its belongings, all its people and all its property, one and...
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...
HOW...! Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. SEARCHED OUT: i.e. discovered by the enemies. Ginsburg thinks it should be read "stripped bare"....
The completeness of the destruction and desolation of Edom is depicted by a double contrast. Two cases are supposed in which something would be left behind. The thief or the robber would take his fill...
_the things of Esau_ lit. _how are they searched out, Esau;_i. e. everything, people and property alike, that belongs to Esau. _his hidden things_ rather PLACES; his treasure-houses and receptacles h...
_EDOM'S PRIDE AND PUNISHMENT -- OBADIAH 1:1-9:_ God gave Obadiah a message about Edom. The King James Version uses the word "Rumor" to describe the vision and message of Obadiah. The word means an aut...
THE EXTENT OF EDOM'S JUDGMENT TEXT: Obadiah 1:5-9 5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to...
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! HOW ARE THE THINGS OF ESAU SEARCHED OUT! - by hostile soldiers seeking booty. Compare with Obadiah 1:5 here Jeremiah 49...
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...
(5-9) The completeness of the overthrow awaiting Edom. It is no mere inroad of a marauding tribe. Something would escape the _robber,_ though he might go away quite satisfied with his plunder; and eve...
אֵ֚יךְ נֶחְפְּשׂ֣וּ עֵשָׂ֔ו נִבְע֖וּ מַצְפֻּנָֽיו׃...
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...
"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? (4) Though thou ex...
He confirms the former sentence, — that the Idumeans in vain trusted that their riches would be safe, because they had hidden and deep recesses. Even when a country is plundered by enemies, the conque...
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...
HOW ARE [THE THINGS] OF ESAU SEARCHED OUT!.... Or how are the Esauites, the posterity of Esau, sought out! though they dwelt in the clefts of the rocks, and hid themselves in caves and dens, yet their...
How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought up! Ver. 6. _How are the things of Esau searched out!_] Or, as Drusius reads it, How are the posterity of Esau searched o...
_If thieves come unto thee_ See note on Jeremiah 49:9. _How are his hidden things sought up!_ Those treasures and riches which he took all possible care to conceal, that they might not be discovered b...
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...
ESAU; the father of this people, and here put for his posterity. All that the Edomites had laid up in the most secret places, in unsearchable caves, and deep abysses of hollow rocks, how are all his t...
Obadiah 1:6 Esau H6215 out H2664 (H8738) hidden H4710 sought H1158 (H8738) are the - Psalms 139
THEY WILL BE EXPELLED FROM EDOM BY THOSE WHO WILL AT FIRST APPEAR TO BE THEIR FRIENDS (OBADIAH 1:5). Their punishment will be extreme and final, and they will be ousted from their homeland by those w...
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...
_How are the things of Esau searched out! _ HIDDEN THINGS SEARCHED OUT All that any test or trial can do is to show what was in us already. In many places of the East there is the horrible disease c...
OBADIAH—NOTE ON OBADIAH 1:5 Edom will be thoroughly DESTROYED, with nothing remaining. ⇐...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Obadiah 1:5.] Spoliation shall be complete; not such as THIEVES or GRAPE-GATHERERS make, who leave the rest when they have had enough. OBADIAH 1:6. HIDDEN] places explored; all trea...
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...
Daniel 2:22; Isaiah 10:13; Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 45:3; Jeremiah 49:10;
Esau — The father of this people, put for his posterity. Sought up — All that the Edomites had laid up in the most secret places, are seized and brought forth by soldiers....
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...