Obadiah 1:6

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

American King James Version (AKJV)

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

American Standard Version (ASV)

How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

Basic English Translation (BBE)

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

Webster's Revision

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought!

World English Bible

How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

English Revised Version (ERV)

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden treasures sought up!

Barnes's Obadiah 1:6 Bible Commentary

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. The word signifies a diligent search and tracking out, as in Zephaniah ZEphesians 1:12, "I will search out Jerusalem with candles," as a man holdeth a light in every dark corner, in seeking diligently some small thing which has been lost. "The hidden things," i. e., his hidden treasures, "are sought up." The enemy who should come upon him, should make no passing foray, but should abide there, seeking out of their holes in the rocks, themselves and their treasures. Petra, through its rocky ramparts, was well suited, as Nineveh in the huge circuit of its massive walls was well built, to be the receptacle of rapine.

And now it was gathered, as rapine is, first or last, for the spoiler. It was safe stored up there, to be had for the seeking. No exit, no way of escape. Edom, lately so full of malicious energy, so proud, should lie at the proud foot of its conqueror, passive as the sheep in this large shamble, or as the inanimate hoards which they had laid up and which were now "tracked out." Soon after Obadiah's prophecy, Judah, under Ahaz, lost again to Syria, Elath 2 Kings 14:6, which it had now under Uzziah recovered 2 Kings 14:22. The Jews were replaced, it is uncertain whether by Edomites or by some tribe of Syrians. If Syrians, they were then friendly; if Edomites, Elath itself must, on the nearby captivity of Syria, have become the absolute possession of Edom. Either way, commerce again poured its wealth into Edom. To what end? To be possessed and to aggrandize Edom, thought her wealthy and her wise men; to be searched out and plundered, said the word of God. And it was so.

Wesley's Obadiah 1:6 Bible Commentary

1:6 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.

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