Obadiah 1:10

Obadiah 1:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.
• New International Version (NIV)Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame; you will be destroyed forever.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For violence against your brother Jacob, Shame shall cover you, And you shall be cut off forever.

Context of Obadiah 1:10

8In that day — this is the Lord’s declaration — will I not eliminate the wise ones of Edom and those who understand from the hill country of Esau? 9Teman, your warriors will be terrified so that everyone from the hill country of Esau will be destroyed by slaughter. You will be covered with shame and destroyed forever because of violence done to your brother Jacob. 11On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers captured his wealth, while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them. 12Do not gloat over your brother in the day of his calamity; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction; do not boastfully mock in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:10 word by word

מֵחֲמַ֛ס אָחִ֥יךָ יַעֲקֹ֖ב תְּכַסְּךָ֣ בוּשָׁ֑ה וְנִכְרַ֖תָּ לְעוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• violenceחָמָסchâmâs · violenceH2555
• against thy brotherאָח'âch · brother: male-siblingH251
• Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
• shameבּוּשָׁהbûshâh · shameH955
• shall coverכָּסָהkâsâh · to coverH3680
• thee, and thou shalt be cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
• for everעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769

Cross-references for Obadiah 1:10

• Genesis 27:11Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.
• Numbers 20:14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says, ‘You know all the hardships that have overtaken us.
• Psalms 83:5For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you —
• Psalms 137:7Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said that day at Jerusalem: “Destroy it! Destroy it down to its foundations!”
• Lamentations 4:21So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you resident of the land of Uz! Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
• Ezekiel 25:12“‘This is what the Lord God says: Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah and incurred grievous guilt by taking revenge on them,
• Ezekiel 35:5“‘Because you maintained a perpetual hatred and gave the Israelites over to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,
• Amos 1:11The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Edom for three crimes, even four, because he pursued his brother with the sword. He stifled his compassion, his anger tore at him continually, and he harbored his rage incessantly.
• Psalms 69:7For I have endured insults because of you, and shame has covered my face.
• Psalms 89:45You have shortened the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame.Selah
• Psalms 109:29My accusers will be clothed with disgrace; they will wear their shame like a cloak.
• Psalms 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown he wears will be glorious.”
• Jeremiah 3:25Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the Lord our God.”
• Jeremiah 51:51We are ashamed because we have heard insults. Humiliation covers our faces because foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lord’s temple.
• Ezekiel 7:18They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald.
• Micah 7:10Then my enemy will see, and she will be covered with shame, the one who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will look at her in triumph; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Commentaries on Obadiah 1:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob - By this term the Israelites in general are understood; for the two brothers, - Jacob, from whom sprang the Jews, and Esau, from whom sprang the Idumeans or Edomites, - are here put for the whole people or descendants of both. We need not look for particular cases of the violence of the Edomites against the Jews. Esau, their founder, was not more inimical to his brother Jacob, who deprived him of his birthright…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10For thy violence against thy brother Jacob - To Israel God had commanded: (Deuteronomy 23:7-8 (Deuteronomy 23:8, Deuteronomy 23:9 in the Hebrew text)), “Thou shalt not abbor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.” Edom did the contrary to all this. “Violence” includes all sorts of ill treatment, from one with whom “might is right,” “because it is in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-14Because of the violence against your brother Jacob: The reason for Esau’s condemnation is explained in Obadiah 1:10 (see also Isaiah 34; Jeremiah 49:7–22; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11–12) and expanded in Obadiah 1:11–14, where Edom’s betrayal is described. In legal terms, these verses provide evidence for the charge of breaking a covenant.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. 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 (Ge 27:41). Jacob--not merely his own brother, but his twin brother; hence the name Jacob, not Israel, is here put emphatically. Compare De 23:7 for the opposite feeling which Jacob's seed was commanded to entertain…Read the comment

Topics related to Obadiah 1:10

• Brother
• Edom
• Esau

In the dictionaries

• Jacob
• Jacob, Israel
• Edom; Edomites
• Joel (2)
• Negeb
• Obadiah, Book of
• Shame

Commentaries on Obadiah 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings