Edom brought down
Obadiah 1
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Where we are
- 1–14Edom brought downPride and a brother’s betrayal, after Jerusalem fell (586 BC)Chapter 1
- 15–21The kingdom is the LORD’sThe Day of the LORD, and Zion delivered
The Destruction of Edom
This is the vision of Obadiah:
This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—
We have heard a message from the LORD;
an envoy has been sent among the nations
to say, “Rise up,
and let us go to battle against her!”—
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On the map
Brothers next door
Edom’s red highlands rose south and east of the Dead Sea, its towns set high on crags like Bozrah. Judah lay just across the valley. Esau’s sons and Jacob’s sons were neighbors, and brothers.
“Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
you will be deeply despised.
God
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks
whose habitation is the heights,
who say in your heart,
‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
All the men allied with you
will drive you to the border;
the men at peace with you
will deceive and overpower you.
Those who eat your bread
will set a trap for you
without your awareness of it.
God
In that day, declares the LORD,
will I not destroy the wise men of Edom
and the men of understanding
in the mountains of Esau?
Then your mighty men, O Teman,
will be terrified,
so that everyone in the mountains of Esau
will be cut down in the slaughter.
Reflect
Out of reach?
Edom trusted its height and its friends. What do you lean on that feels out of trouble’s reach? Tell the LORD about it.
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
God
On the day you stood aloof
while strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gate
and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were just like one of them.
As you have done
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Each thing Edom did in Judah’s day comes back on Edom in the Day of the LORD.
The Deliverance of Israel
For the Day of the LORD is near
for all the nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you;
your recompense will return upon your own head.
For as you drank on My holy mountain,
so all the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and gulp it down;
they will be as if they had never existed.
But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance,
and it will be holy,
and the house of Jacob
will reclaim their possession.
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God
Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire,
and the house of Joseph a burning flame;
but the house of Esau will be stubble—
Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it.
Therefore no survivor will remain
from the house of Esau.”
For the LORD has spoken.
Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau;
those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines.
They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,
and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Obadiah
And the exiles of this host of the Israelites
will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath;
and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the cities of the Negev.
The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
to rule over the mountains of Esau.
And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
Obadiah 1:21
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Edom’s cliffs were high and its friends many. But God names a different reason for its fall.
Why does the LORD judge Edom?
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