Obadiah 1:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance,e and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. ”

• Obadiah 1:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  But (And) upon (in) Mount Zion, shall be deliverance, or, an escaped remnant, and there (and it) shall be holiness - The sifting times of the Church are the triumph of the world; the judgment of...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Obadiah 1:15 a, Obadiah 1:16-21 . The Judgment of the Nations. The Day of Yahweh approaches; Judah has already drunk her cup of suffering ( cf. Jeremiah 25:15 ; Jeremiah 49:12 ), and now the...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  upon mount Zion. Compare Isaiah 46:13 . Joel 2:32 . shall be. Compare Jeremiah 46:28 ; Joel 3:16 ; Amos 9:8 . deliverance . a delivered remnant. Compare Joel 2:32 . and there shall be,...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here the Prophet promises deliverance to the Jews; for other consolations would have been of no great moment, had they, who then were perishing, no hope of being some time restored to safety. T...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance - Here is a promise of the retu...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions— Shall possess what they had before possessed; that is to say, their return from the Babylonish captivity.

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance - both in the litera...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  17-21 . — ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF JEHOVAH ON MOUNT ZION. (17) Deliverance. — Better, as in margin, the fugitives of Israel who have survived the recent calamity. This is clear from Isa...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  EDOM AND ISRAEL Obadiah 1:1-21 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...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  "But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions." The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions - What are these?...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  POSSESSING OUR POSSESSIONS ‘The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.’ Obadiah 1:17 As long as Edom invaded and annoyed the house of Jacob the people were unable to possess their p...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance ,.... Not only by Cyrus, at the end of the seventy years' captivity; and by the Maccabees from the Idumeans, and other enemies; but by the Messiah; for not m...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Ver. 17. But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance ] God will "turn ag...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance Literally taken, this refers to the Jews; mystically, to the gospel church. By deliverance here may be first meant an asylum, or place of refuge, to escap...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Promises to Israel and Judah. B. C. 587.       17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance,...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But. or And, Heb. Upon Mount Zion; historically, and in the letter, this refers to the people of the Jews, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and those who worshipped God in the temple. In the my...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 1:15-21 ). But what they had overlooked was that one day YHWH would...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Obadiah 1:17 .] Yet this Mount shall become a sanctuary for God and his people, who will possess , regain their possessions. Obadiah 1:18 .] Israel, again united and una...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness. Holiness on Mount Zion The imagery of Scripture poetry often presents instructive truths, referring to more general subjec...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  But upon Mount Zion, in the midst of the Lord's Church, shall be deliverance, the congregation of such as are saved from the judgment of destruction; and there shall be holiness, that is, Mount Z...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 9:11-15 ; Amos 9:8 ; Ezekiel 7:16 ; Isaiah 1:27 ; Isaiah 14:1 ; Isaiah 14:2 ; Isaiah 4:3 ; Isaiah 4:4 ; Isaiah 46:13 ; Isaiah 60:21 ; Jeremiah 44:14 ; Jeremiah 44:28 ; Jeremiah 46:2...

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• Obadiah 1:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Zion — Literally this refers to the Jews: typically to the gospel — church. Deliverance — A remnant that shall be delivered by Cyrus, a type of Israel's redemption by Christ. Holiness — The temple,...

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