Obadiah 1:2 KJV — MannaFest

Obadiah 1:2

Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

KJV

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DBT

Behold, I have made thee small among the nations; thou art greatly despised.

ASV

Behold, I have made thee small among the nations: thou art greatly despised.

WEB

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

YLT

Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised art thou exceedingly.

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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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Numbers 24:18
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
Isaiah 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Luke 1:51–52
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Micah 7:10
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Job 34:25–29
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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I have made thee small--Thy reduction to insignificance is as sure as if it were already accomplished; therefore the past tense is used [MAURER]. Edom then extended from Dedan of Arabia to Bozrah in the north (Jer 49:8, 13). CALVIN explains it, "Whereas thou wast made by Me an insignificant people, why art thou so proud" (Ob 3)?

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

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