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Obadiah Chapter 1

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OBADIAH

Obadiah 1

1The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.
Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Amos 1:11, Amos 1:12, Joel 3:19
2Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.
Numbers 24:18, Isaiah 23:9, Numbers 24:18, Isaiah 23:9, Micah 7:10
3The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:15, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:15, Proverbs 29:23
4Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9, Job 20:6, Job 20:7, Amos 9:2, Habakkuk 2:9
5If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?
Jeremiah 49:9, Deuteronomy 24:21, Jeremiah 49:9, Deuteronomy 24:21, Isaiah 17:6
6How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?
Jeremiah 49:10, Jeremiah 49:10, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:1, Daniel 2:22
7They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.
Psalms 41:9, Psalms 41:9, Jeremiah 30:14, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 30:14
8Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?
Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 29:14, Job 5:12, Job 5:14, Job 5:12
9And thy valiant men of the south shall be afraid, that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.
Ezekiel 25:13, Amos 1:12, Isaiah 63:1, Isaiah 63:3, Ezekiel 25:13
10For the slaughter, and for the iniquity against thy brother Jacob, confusion shall cover thee, and thou shalt perish for ever.
Amos 1:11, Amos 1:11, Malachi 1:3, Malachi 1:4, Malachi 1:3
11In the day when thou stoodest against him, when strangers carried away his army captive, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem: thou also wast as one of them.
Psalms 137:7, Psalms 137:7, Nahum 3:10, Nahum 3:10, Joel 3:3
12But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.
Micah 4:11, Ezekiel 35:15, Micah 4:11, Ezekiel 35:15, Proverbs 17:5
13Neither shalt thou enter into the gate of my people in the day of their ruin: neither shalt thou also look on in his evils in the day of his calamity: and thou shalt not be sent out against his army in the day of his desolation.
Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 22:17, Ezekiel 35:10, 2 Samuel 16:12
14Neither shalt thou stand in the crossways to kill them that flee: and thou shalt not shut up them that remain of him in the day of tribulation.
Psalms 31:8, Isaiah 37:3, Genesis 35:3, Obadiah 1:12, Amos 1:9
15For the day of the Lord is at hand upon all nations: as thou hast done, so shall it be done to thee: he will turn thy reward upon thy own head.
Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:8, James 2:13, James 2:13, Matthew 7:2
16For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, so all nations shall drink continually: and they shall drink, and sup up, and they shall be as though they were not.
Joel 3:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Joel 3:17, Jeremiah 49:12, Jeremiah 25:15
17And in mount Sion shall be salvation, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess those that possessed them.
Revelation 21:27, Amos 9:11, Amos 9:15, Revelation 21:27, Amos 9:11
18And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble: and they shall be kindled in them, and shall devour them: and there shall be no remains of the house of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it.
Zechariah 12:6, Zechariah 12:6, Isaiah 10:17, Isaiah 10:17, Ezekiel 37:19
19And they that are toward the south, shall inherit the mount of Esau, and they that are in the plains, the Philistines: and they shall possess the country of Ephraim, and the country of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Galaad.
Zephaniah 2:4, Zephaniah 2:7, Jeremiah 32:44, Amos 9:12, Zephaniah 2:4
20And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south.
Luke 4:26, 1 Kings 17:9, 1 Kings 17:10, Luke 4:26, 1 Kings 17:9
21And saviours shall come up into mount Sion to judge the mount of Esau: and the kingdom shall be for the Lord.
Revelation 11:15, Revelation 11:15, Zechariah 14:9, James 5:20, Zechariah 14:9

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