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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Obediah 1:11 - 1:11
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thou stoodest on the other side - in an attitude of hostility, rather than the sympathy which became a brother, feasting thine eyes (see Oba 1:12) with the misery of Jacob, and eagerly watching for his destruction. So Messiah, the antitype to Jerusalem, abandoned by His kinsmen (Psa 38:11).
strangers - the Philistines, Arabians in the reign of Jehoram, etc. (2Ch 21:16); the Syrians in the reign of Joash of Judah (2Ch 24:24); the Chaldeans (2Ch 36:1-23).
carried ... captive his forces - his “host” (Oba 1:20): the multitude of Jerusalem’s inhabitants.
cast lots upon Jerusalem - (Joe 3:3). So Messiah, Jerusalem’s antitype, had lots cast for His only earthly possessions (Psa 22:18).