Obadiah 1:14

Do not stand at the crossroads to cut down his fugitives, and do not deliver up his survivors in the day of distress.

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In The King James Version

Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

In Context

13Do not enter my people's gate in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, do not loot their wealth in the day of their ruin.

15For the day of Yahweh is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your deeds will return on your own head.

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Cross References

Psalms 31:8You have not given me into the hand of my enemy. 1 You have set my feet in a wide open place. 1

Jeremiah 30:7Woe! For that day will be great, with none like it. 1 It will be a time of anxiety for Jacob, but he will be rescued from it. 1

Amos 1:9This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Tyre, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they had delivered up a whole people to Edom, 1 and they broke their covenant of brotherhood. 1

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 →

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