Obadiah 1:8 KJV — MannaFest

Obadiah 1:8

Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

KJV

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ASV

Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

WEB

In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?

YLT

Is it not in that day--an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?

DBT

Shall I not in that day, saith Jehovah, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

About this book

Old Testament

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Obadiah — Twenty-one verses against Edom — the shortest book in the Old Testament. Judgment on the brother-nation that gloated when Jerusalem fell.

Author: Obadiah (v. 1) — no patronymic or home given
Date: Disputed: either shortly after 586 BC (Edom's complicity in Jerusalem's fall, Ps 137:7) or pre-exilic

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7 verses on the floor

Isaiah 29:14
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
Job 5:12–14
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Psalms 33:10
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Isaiah 19:13–14
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

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Thus wisdom perishes from Teman, as it is in the parallel place, Jer. xlix. This was, (1.) The just punishment of their folly in trusting to an arm of flesh: There is no understanding in them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Jer 19:7). in that day . . . even destroy--Heretofore Edom, through its intercourse with Babylon and Egypt, and from its means of information through the many caravans passing to and fro between Europe and India, has been famed for knowledge; but in that day at last ("even") I will destroy its wise men. mount of Esau--that is, Idumea, which was a mountainous region.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

OBA 1:8PSA 33:10 ISA 44:25
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
OBA 1:8PSA 33:10 PRO 21:30
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
OBA 1:8PSA 33:10 PSA 21:11
OBA 1:8PSA 33:10 JOB 5:12-13
OBA 1:8PSA 33:10 2SA 15:31
OBA 1:8ISA 29:14 HAB 1:5
OBA 1:8ISA 29:14 1CO 1:19-24
OBA 1:8ISA 29:14 ISA 28:21

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