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Obadiah Chapter 1

Obadiah
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Obadiah

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Obadiah opens with a lament for the city of Tyre, describing its fall and the destruction of its people. The chapter emphasizes the consequences of pride and injustice, warning that God punishes the wicked while showing mercy to the righteous. It sets the tone for the rest of the letter, which predicts Tyre’s downfall and the triumph of God’s judgment.

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(1) The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
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Psalms 137:7Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 34:1Isaiah 34:2Isaiah 34:3Isaiah 34:4Isaiah 34:5Isaiah 34:6Isaiah 34:7Isaiah 34:8Isaiah 34:9Isaiah 34:10

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Jeremiah 49:14Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 49:28Ezekiel 7:26Ezekiel 43:3

(2) Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.
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Numbers 24:18I Samuel 2:7I Samuel 2:8Job 34:25Job 34:26Job 34:27Job 34:28Job 34:29Psalms 107:39Psalms 107:40Isaiah 23:9Ezekiel 29:15

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Jeremiah 49:15

(3) 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?
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Proverbs 16:18Proverbs 18:12Proverbs 29:23Isaiah 10:14Isaiah 10:15Isaiah 10:16Isaiah 16:6Jeremiah 48:29Jeremiah 48:30Jeremiah 49:16Malachi 1:4II Kings 14:7

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Jeremiah 49:16I Samuel 12:3Daniel 4:21Philippians 3:19

(4) Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
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Job 20:6Job 20:7Job 39:27Job 39:28Jeremiah 49:16Habakkuk 2:9Isaiah 14:12Isaiah 14:13Isaiah 14:14Isaiah 14:15Jeremiah 51:53Amos 9:2

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Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Jeremiah 49:16

(5) If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?
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Jeremiah 49:9II Samuel 1:19Isaiah 14:12Jeremiah 50:23Lamentations 1:1Zephaniah 2:15Revelation 18:10Deuteronomy 24:21Isaiah 17:6Isaiah 24:13Micah 7:1

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Jeremiah 49:9Ephesians 4:11Genesis 31:39II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23

(6) How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
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Psalms 139:1Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Isaiah 45:3Jeremiah 49:10Jeremiah 50:37Matthew 6:19Matthew 6:20Daniel 2:22

(7) All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
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Psalms 55:12Psalms 55:13Jeremiah 4:30Jeremiah 30:14Lamentations 1:19Ezekiel 23:22Ezekiel 23:23Ezekiel 23:24Ezekiel 23:25Revelation 17:12Revelation 17:13Revelation 17:14

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Jeremiah 20:7Numbers 34:6Joshua 15:11Ezekiel 47:17

(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?
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Job 5:12Job 5:13Job 5:14Psalms 33:10Isaiah 19:3Isaiah 19:13Isaiah 19:14Isaiah 29:14I Corinthians 3:19I Corinthians 3:20

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Daniel 2:24Genesis 36:8Deuteronomy 4:6Proverbs 1:5I Corinthians 1:19II Chronicles 20:23

(9) And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.
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Psalms 76:5Psalms 76:6Isaiah 19:16Isaiah 19:17Jeremiah 49:22Jeremiah 50:36Jeremiah 50:37Amos 2:16Nahum 3:13Genesis 36:11Job 2:11Jeremiah 49:7

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Genesis 36:8Exodus 19:20Joshua 24:4Obadiah 1:21Genesis 36:15

(10) For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
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Genesis 27:11Genesis 27:41Numbers 20:14Numbers 20:15Numbers 20:16Numbers 20:17Numbers 20:18Numbers 20:19Numbers 20:20Numbers 20:21Psalms 83:5Psalms 83:6

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Habakkuk 2:17

(11) In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
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II Kings 24:10II Kings 24:11II Kings 24:12II Kings 24:13II Kings 24:14II Kings 24:15II Kings 24:16II Kings 25:11Jeremiah 52:28Jeremiah 52:29Jeremiah 52:30Joel 3:3

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Jeremiah 13:19Jeremiah 40:1Jeremiah 41:10Revelation 21:13Ezekiel 16:4II Kings 7:8

(12) But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
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Psalms 22:17Psalms 37:13Psalms 54:7Psalms 59:10Psalms 92:11Micah 4:11Micah 7:8Micah 7:9Micah 7:10Matthew 27:40Matthew 27:41Matthew 27:42

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Obadiah 1:13Obadiah 1:14II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19Job 7:17Job 10:3

(13) Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
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II Samuel 16:12Psalms 22:17Zechariah 1:15

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Obadiah 1:12Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19Job 7:17

(14) Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
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Amos 1:6Amos 1:9Psalms 31:8Obadiah 1:12Genesis 35:3Isaiah 37:3Jeremiah 30:7

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Obadiah 1:12II Kings 14:10II Chronicles 25:19Job 7:17Job 10:3Job 38:20

(15) For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
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Psalms 110:5Psalms 110:6Jeremiah 9:25Jeremiah 9:26Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:17Jeremiah 25:18Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 25:20Jeremiah 25:21Jeremiah 25:22

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Song of Solomon 6:13Jeremiah 15:19Jeremiah 44:14Ezekiel 16:55Malachi 3:7Ezekiel 30:3

(16) For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
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Psalms 75:8Psalms 75:9Isaiah 49:25Isaiah 49:26Isaiah 51:22Isaiah 51:23Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:27Jeremiah 25:28Jeremiah 25:29Jeremiah 49:12

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Joshua 17:18Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8

(17) But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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Isaiah 46:13Joel 2:32Jeremiah 46:28Amos 9:8Jeremiah 44:14Jeremiah 44:28Ezekiel 7:16Isaiah 1:27Isaiah 4:3Isaiah 4:4Isaiah 60:21Joel 3:17

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Obadiah 1:19Exodus 19:20Deuteronomy 11:29Joel 2:32Obadiah 1:21Judges 11:24

(18) And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it.
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Isaiah 10:17Isaiah 31:9Micah 5:8Zechariah 12:6II Samuel 19:20Ezekiel 37:16Ezekiel 37:19Amos 5:15Amos 6:6Psalms 83:6Psalms 83:7Psalms 83:8

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Genesis 25:34Genesis 27:5Genesis 27:38Genesis 27:41Genesis 27:42Genesis 36:8

(19) And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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Numbers 24:18Numbers 24:19Joshua 15:21Jeremiah 32:44Amos 9:12Malachi 1:4Malachi 1:5Joshua 13:2Joshua 13:3Joshua 15:33Joshua 15:45Joshua 15:46

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Judges 11:24Obadiah 1:20Joshua 24:4Deuteronomy 11:8Deuteronomy 11:31Joshua 1:11

(20) And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
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Jeremiah 3:18Jeremiah 33:26Ezekiel 34:12Ezekiel 34:13Hosea 1:10Hosea 1:11Amos 9:14Amos 9:15Zechariah 10:6Zechariah 10:7Zechariah 10:8Zechariah 10:9

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Ezekiel 16:53Obadiah 1:19Judges 11:24Joshua 1:11Deuteronomy 11:8Deuteronomy 11:31

(21) And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
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Judges 2:16Judges 3:9II Kings 13:5Isaiah 19:20Daniel 12:3Joel 2:32Micah 5:4Micah 5:5Micah 5:6Micah 5:7Micah 5:8Micah 5:9

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Exodus 19:20Genesis 31:25Genesis 31:54Genesis 36:8Exodus 19:12Exodus 19:18

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