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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Obediah 1:10 - 1:10
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against thy brother - This aggravates the sin of Esau, that it was against him who was his brother by birth and by circumcision. The posterity of Esau followed in the steps of their father’s hatred to Jacob by violence against Jacob’s seed (Gen 27:41).
Jacob - not merely his own brother, but his twin brother; hence the name Jacob, not Israel, is here put emphatically. Compare Deu 23:7 for the opposite feeling which Jacob’s seed was commanded to entertain towards Edom’s.
shame ... cover thee - (Psa 35:26; Psa 69:7).
for ever - (Isa 34:10; Eze 35:9; Mal 1:4). Idumea, as a nation, should be “cut off for ever,” though the land should be again inhabited.