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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...
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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...
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HOW...! Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
SEARCHED OUT: i.e. discovered by the enemies. Ginsburg thinks it
should be read "stripped bare"....
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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Edom's Destruction Foretold...
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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 t...
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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...
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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...
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Obadiah 1:6 Esau H6215 out H2664 (H8738) hidden H4710 sought H1158
(H8738)
are the - Psalms 139
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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OBADIAH—NOTE ON OBADIAH 1:5 Edom will be thoroughly DESTROYED, with
nothing remaining.
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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...
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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...
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Daniel 2:22; Isaiah 10:13; Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 45:3; Jeremiah 49:10;
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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....
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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...