How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,
Obadiah — Twenty-one verses against Edom — the shortest book in the Old Testament. Judgment on the brother-nation that gloated when Jerusalem fell.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices7
How are the things of Esau searched out!....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
(Verse 4 onwards) If thieves entered your house, or robbers at night, how would you remain silent? Wouldn't they have stolen enough for themselves? If grape harvesters entered your vineyard, wouldn't they at least leave some grapes for you? How deeply they searched, how thoroughly they investigated his hidden places! Septuagint: If thieves entered your house, or robbers at night, where would you hide? Wouldn't they have stolen enough for themselves? And if grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave some grapes? How Esau has been searched, and his hidden things have been discovered?
Jerome· Commentary on Obadiah, 420patristic
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 all. The name Esau speaks of them as a whole; the plural verb, are outsearched, represents all its parts.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
How are the things of Esau searched out!--by hostile soldiers seeking booty. Compare with Ob 5, 6 here, Jer 49:9, 10. hidden things--or "places." Edom abounded in such hiding-places, as caves, clefts in the rock, &c.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
How art thou fallen, and how great is thy fall! How art thou stupefied! so the Chaldee words it. How senseless art thou under these desolating judgments, as if they were but common strokes!
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
How are the things of Esau, the things he sets his heart upon and places his happiness in, his good things, his best things, how are these things, which were so carefully treasured up and concealed, now searched out by the enemy and seized! How are the hidden things, his hidden treasures, plundered, rifled, and sought up!
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 139:1O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
leads to
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
Through
Daniel 2:22He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
leads to
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches8
But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.
