Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Obadiah 1:16
As ye — As ye, my own people, have drunk deep of the cup of affliction, so shall other nations much more, yea, they shall drink of it, 'till they utterly perish.
As ye — As ye, my own people, have drunk deep of the cup of affliction, so shall other nations much more, yea, they shall drink of it, 'till they utterly perish.
Verse Obadiah 1:16. _FOR AS YE HAVE DRUNK_] This address is to the _Jews_. As ye have been visited and punished upon my holy mountain in Jerusalem, so shall other nations be punished in their respecti...
FOR AS YE HAVE DRUNK - Revelry always followed pagan victory; often, desecration. The Romans bore in triumph the vessels of the second temple, Nebuchadnezzar carried away the sacred vessels of the fir...
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;...
HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. CONTINUALLY. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one Rabbinic in margin), read "round about", SWALLOW DOWN: or, stagger. Only elsewhere in Job 6:3. AS THOU...
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...
FOR AS YE HAVE DRUNK, &C.— _For as I have given my wine to drink in my holy mountain, so,_ &c....
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 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. FOR AS YE...
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...
כִּ֗י כַּֽ אֲשֶׁ֤ר שְׁתִיתֶם֙ עַל ־הַ֣ר קָדְש
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 as ye have (l) 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 (m) as though they had not been. (l...
_Drink. They shall rejoice at your fall, as you did at that of Juda; (St. Jerome) or, as my people has not been spared, can you expect to escape? (Jeremias xlix. 12.) --- Not. These nations and the Ch...
"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...
Here Obadiah proceeds farther and says, that God would revenge the wrongs done to his Church. The declaration in the last verse was general, “Behold, on all the nations the day of Jehovah is nigh; as...
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 AS YE HAVE DRUNK UPON MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, [SO] SHALL ALL THE HEATHEN DRINK CONTINUALLY,.... Which is either spoken to the Edomites; and the sense be, according to the Targum, "as ye have rejoiced a...
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. Ver. 16. _...
_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 as ye have drunk upon My holy mountain, in the desecration of a drunken orgy, SO SHALL ALL THE HEATHEN, of whom Edom was a type, DRINK CONTINUALLY, being obliged to drink the cup of the Lord's wra...
SWALLOW DOWN: Or, sup up...
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...
This, with some, is a confirmation of what is threatened against Edom, yet others make this verse the beginning of the consolatory sermon to Judah, and either suits well with the context. AS YE, O Edo...
Obadiah 1:16 drank H8354 (H8804) holy H6944 mountain H2022 nations H1471 drink H8354 (H8799) continually H8548 drink
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...
OBADIAH—NOTE ON OBADIAH 1:16 AS YOU HAVE DRUNK is a common biblical metaphor (compare Isaiah 51:17;...
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...
1 Peter 4:17; Habakkuk 1:9; Isaiah 29:7; Isaiah 29:8; Isaiah 42:14;...
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...