The Book of Obadiah
OBADIAH - This shortest of the prophetic books, containing only 21 verses, is a scathing denunciation of the Edomites, descendants of Esau, who from the beginning had been hostile to Israel. Its message is primarily one of destruction and doom for Edom. The latter part of the prophecy is concerned with the Day of the Lord when God’s judgment will be upon other nations as well as Edom and concludes with the promise that "the kingdom shall be the Lord’s".
Author: Prophet Obadiah
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| kjv@1Kings:18:1-15 | Elijah and Obadiah |
| kjv@Obadiah:1 | Obadiah |
(see also: BIBLEBYCHAPTER-Obadiah )
SUMMARY:
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Obadiah, Book of
(1) by Shishak in the reign of Rehoboam (kjvKings:14:25);
(2) by the Philistines and Arabians in the reign of Jehoram ( kjv@2Chronicals:21:16);
(3) by Joash, the king of Israel, in the reign of Amaziah ( kjv@2Kings:14:13); and
(4) by the Babylonians, when Jerusalem was taken and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (B.C. 586). Obadiah (1:11-14) speaks of this capture as a thing past. He sees the calamity as having already come on Jerusalem, and the Edomites as joining their forces with those of the Chaldeans in bringing about the degradation and ruin of Israel. We do not indeed read that the Edomites actually took part with the Chaldeans, but the probabilities are that they did so, and this explains the words of Obadiah in denouncing against Edom the judgments of God. The date of his prophecies was thus in or about the year of the destruction of Jerusalem. Edom is the type of Israel's and of God's last foe kjv@Isaiah:63:1-4). These will finally all be vanquished, and the kingdom will be the Lord's (comp. kjv@Psalms:22:28).
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