In the day; during the war which the Babylonians made upon Judea, or in the day of battle when Jews fought with Chaldeans. That thou stoodest on the other side; tookest up thy stand over-right them, observing with delight how they were worsted, slaughtered. and routed; or didst set thyself in battle-array against thy brother Jacob. The strangers; the Babylonians. and the mixed nations which joined with them. Carried away captive; first mastered the Jews, and then made them captives. and sent them away out of their own land, a sight which should have moved compassions in thee. His forces; his strength, his troops, or multitudes that survived and were taken, and their wealth and riches too. Foreigners entered into his gates; that invaded, slew the inhabitants, and forced the besieged places to open their gates; or took the fortresses by assault. Cast lots; so robbers divided their prey, and conquerors, Proverbs 1:14 Joel 3:3, which see. Upon Jerusalem; upon the citizens and their goods, which were found in Jerusalem when it was taken by the Chaldeans. Even thou, a neighbour, who wast not molested by Israel when they marched through other nations from Egypt to Canaan, who wast a brother by descent, Obadiah 1:10, wast as one of them, as merciless and insolent as any of those barbarous foreigners.
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Obadiah 1:11
11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captivea his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.