Obadiah 1:11
From the day that you stood in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also was as one of them.
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2 Kings 25:11And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the + 25:11 Gr. deserters. men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Psalms 137:7Though I should walk in the midst of affliction, you will quicken me; you have stretched forth your hands against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand has saved me. 1
Joel 3:3and cast lots over my people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.
Zephaniah 2:10This is their punishment in return for their haughtiness, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the Lord Almighty.
Matthew Henry on Obadiah 1:11-17
The Guilt of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 10 For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →