Obadiah 1:6

How is Esav searched out! 1 How are his hidden treasures pillaged! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5If ganavim (thieves) came to thee, if shodedei lailah (robbers by night) — 1 oh how art thou cut off! 1 — would they not have stolen only till they had enough? 1 If the grape gatherers came to thee, 1 would they not leave some grapes? 1

7All the men of thy alliance 1 have forced thee and brought thee even to the border; 1 the anshei shlomecha (the men that were at peace with thee) have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; 1 they that eat thy lechem (bread) 1 have laid a mazor (net, trap) under thee; 1 there is none detecting it. 1

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Cross References

Psalms 139:1(For the one directing, Mizmor of Dovid) 1

Isaiah 45:3And I will give thee the otzarot choshech, 1 and hidden riches of mistarim (secret places) 1 that thou mayest know that I, Hashem, 1 Who call thee by thy shem (name), am Elohei Yisroel. 1

Jeremiah 50:37A cherev is upon their susim, and upon their chariots, 1 and upon all the mixed rabble that are in the midst of her; 1 and they shall become as nashim; 1 a cherev is upon her otzarot; 1 and they shall be plundered. 1

Matthew 6:19Do not store up for yourselves otzarot (treasures) on haaretz, where moth and rust destroy and where ganavim (thieves) break in and steal.

Matthew Henry on Obadiah 1:2-10

The Doom of Edom. ( b. c. 587.) 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord , and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. 2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised. 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4 Though thou exalt… Read the whole commentary →

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