Obadiah 1:17

But in Mount Zion there will be those that escape and it will be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.

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But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

In Context

16For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. They will drink and swallow and it will be as though they had never existed.

18The house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau will be stubble, and they will burn them, and consume them. There will be no survivors to the house of Esau, for Yahweh has spoken it.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 4:3It will happen that the one who is left in Zion 1 and the one who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, 1 everyone who is written down as living in Jerusalem. 1

Isaiah 46:13I am bringing my righteousness near; it is not far away, and my salvation does not wait; 1 and I will give salvation to Zion and my beauty to Israel.

Isaiah 65:9I will bring descendants from Jacob, and from Judah ones who will possess my mountains. 1 My chosen ones will possess the land, and my servants will live there. 1

Jeremiah 44:14so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return and live; and none of them will return except a few who escaped from there.'”

Jeremiah 46:28You, my servant Jacob, do not fear—this is Yahweh's declaration—for I am with you, so I will bring complete destruction against all the nations where I scattered you. But I will not destroy you completely. Yet I will discipline you justly and will certainly not leave you unpunished.”

Ezekiel 36:12I will bring men, my people Israel, to walk on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance, and you will no longer cause their children to die.

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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