Obadiah 1:9

Hebrew Bible

7 All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise! 8 “At that time,” the Lord says,“I will destroy the wise sages of Edom, the advisers from Esau’s mountain. 9 Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain! 10 “Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever. 11 You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

Ezekiel 25:13

Hebrew Bible

11 I will execute judgments against Moab. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’” 12 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Edom has taken vengeance against the house of Judah; they have made themselves fully culpable by taking vengeance on them. 13 So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die by the sword. 14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience my vengeance, declares the Sovereign Lord.’” 15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘The Philistines have exacted merciless revenge, showing intense scorn in their effort to destroy Judah with unrelenting hostility.

 Notes and References

"... Should the two theses discussed thus far be joined, indicating that Israel – more precisely, some of the groups belonging to the Rachel-tribes – adopted the worship of YHWH from its “brother nation,” the Edomites? Such a conclusion is suggested upon an initial reading of the three well–known theophany texts that describe YHWH as coming to the aid of his people from his southern abode (Judges 5:4; Deuteronomy 33:2; Habakkuk 3:3). All three texts refer to areas in Edom as the place from which the divine presence appeared or will appear: in Judges 5:4 and Deuteronomy 33:2 it is “Seir” (with an additional reference to the “plains of Edom” in Judges 5:4), while in Habakkuk 3:3 it is “Teman.” Within the Hebrew Bible, “Seir” is almost always used with reference to “Edom,” while “Teman” is a term that can indicate the “south” generally but is also used for a specific part of Edom (Ezekiel 25:13) and more frequently pars pro toto for Edom as a whole (e.g., Jeremiah 49:20; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 9) ..."

Jeremias, Jörg "Three Theses on the Early History of Israel" in Oorschot, Jürgen van, and Markus Witte (eds.) The Origins of Yahwism (pp. 145-156) De Gruyter, 2017

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