Obadiah 1
DOYLY—they that eat thy bread] Nevertheless, those very persons, whom thou didst maintain as thy allies, have given thee a secret blow of which thou wast not aware. W. Lowth.
Obadiah 1:6
- How are the things of Esau searched out? &c.] But as for thine enemies, the Chaldees, they shall ransack and rifle all the things of Edom, and shall search out all thy hidden commodities, and carry them away at once. Bp. Hall.
Obadiah 1:7
7.—even to the border:] Thy own border, where
Obadiah 1:9
9.—Teman,] See Jer. xlix. 7; Amos i. 12; “the mount of Esau” is mount Seir.
c Jer. 49. 9. I Or. gleanings! § Or. of it. d Isa. 29. 14. Jer. 49. 7. The destruction of Edom. The salvation of Jacob. e Gen. 27. 41. Ezek. 35. 5. Amos 1. 11. Or, carried away his substance. Or, do not behold, &c. Heb. magnified thy mouth. Or, forces. Or, shut up. Ezek. 35. 15.
Obadiah 1:10
- For thy violence against thy brother &c.] See the note on Amos 1. 11.
Obadiah 1:11
- — in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces.] When Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, thou didst join with the enemy; see Ps. cxxxvii. W. Lowth.
Obadiah 1:12
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— thou shouldst not have looked on the day of thy brother] Thou oughtest not to have taken pleasure at the sight of thy brother’s calamity. So the expression of “looking upon an enemy” signifies the beholding his fall with satisfaction, Ps. liv. 7; lix. 10; xci. 11; cxii. 8. Compare Micah iv. 11; vii. 10. W. Lowth.
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For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, &c. As you of Edom shall drink of the cup of my indignation upon, or rather because of, my holy mountain, and the holy land of Judea, which you have persecuted, so shall all those nations, that joined with you in your offences, ever taste of the same cup, till they have drunk it up, and be as if they had never been. Dr. Stokes.
Obadiah 1:17
- But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, &c.] This was remarkably verified at the first preaching of the Gospel, when God’s law came forth from Zion, Isa. ii. 3; Joel ii. 32; Ps. cx. 2. W. Lowth.
Obadiah 1:18
- And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, &c.] This was fulfilled in part by Hyrcanus and the Maccabees, 1 Mac. v. 3; but was to be accomplished more fully in
reward shall return upon thine own head.
Obadiah 1:19
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And they of the south &c.] Edom lay to the south; the Philistines to the west; Ephraim to the north; and Gilead to the east. Abp. Newcome. These words import the conquests of the Jews over their idolatrous neighbours in every direction. W. Lowth. Or, the enlargement of the Church of Christ in the times of the Gospel. Poole.
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— the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south. Others translate the passage, as in the margin, “The captivity of Jerusalem shall possess that which is in Sepharad, and the cities of the south.” If the word be taken as an appellative, it signifies a border, and may denote that part of Arabia which bordereth upon the south of Judea, or the “cities of the south,” here mentioned. W. Lowth.
Obadiah 1:21
- And saviours shall come up on mount Zion &c.] By “saviours” may be understood the leaders of the Jews, who should fight their battles, and vanquish their enemies, denoted by the inhabitants of the “mount of Esau.” In this sense the word “saviour” is taken, Judges iii. 9; Isa. xix. 20. Or we may understand the word in a spiritual sense, for the preachers of salvation, whose office it is to convert unbelievers and “aliens to the commonwealth of Israel.” Compare ver. 17, and Amos ix. 12. W. Lowth.