Obadiah 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

Obadiah 1:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Numbers 24:18
And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.
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.
1 Samuel 2:7-8
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Edom is the nation against which this prophecy is levelled, and which, some think, is put for all the enemies of Israel, that shall be brought down first or last. The rabbin by Edom understand Rome. Rome Christians they understand it of, and have an implacable enmity to it a such; but, if we understand it of Rome antichristian, we shall find the passages of it applicable enough. And though Edom wa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. 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 (Jr 49:8, 13). Calvin explains it, “Whereas thou wast made by Me an insignificant people, why art thou so proud” (Ob 3)? But if so, why should the heathen peoples be needed to subdue one s…