Obadiah 1:10-11

Edom's Violence Against Jacob

10 l Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob,
shame shall cover you,
m and you shall be cut off forever.
11 n On the day that you stood aloof,
o on the day that strangers carried off his wealth
and foreigners entered his gates
p and cast lots for Jerusalem,
you were like one of them.

  1. Cross References
    Numbers 20:20 - 21
    But he said, "You shall not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.
  2. Cross References
    Ezekiel 35:9
    I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 137:7
    Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!
    Jeremiah 12:14
    Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: "Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:10 - 20
    And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
  5. Cross References
    Joel 3:3
    And have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.
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