“ How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up! ”
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, on...
Obadiah 1:1-15 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:...
How...! Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. searched out: i.e. discovered by the enemies. Ginsburg thinks it should be read "stripped bare".
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...
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
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 1:5-6 here...
(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 ev...
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...
"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 e...
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 th...
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...
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 discovere...
The Doom of Edom. B. C. 587. 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord G OD concerni...
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 hi...
They Will Be Expelled From Edom By Those Who Will At First Appear To Be Their Friends ( Obadiah 1:5-9 ). Their punishment will be extreme and final, and they will be ousted from their homeland by...
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 exp...
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 disea...
Edom's Destruction Foretold
Daniel 2:22 ; Isaiah 10:13 ; Isaiah 10:14 ; Isaiah 45:3 ; Jeremiah 49:10 ; Jeremiah 50:37 ; Matthew 6:19 ; Matthew 6:20 ; Psalms 139:1
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.