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Obadiah describes Edom’s allies turning against it. The Hebrew version describes their ruin as a betrayal by trusted friends who deceive and overpower, while the Greek Septuagint describes it as an open defeat by allies who prevailed.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Obadiah 1:7
Hebrew Bible
6 How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked! 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.
LXX Obadiah 1:7
Septuagint
6 How Esau has been sought out, and his hidden things detected. 7 All the men of your covenant have expelled you as far as the boundaries. They stood against you. Your men of peace have prevailed against you. They have set an ambush below you. They have no understanding. 8 On that day,” says the Lord, “I will destroy the wise ones from Edom, and understanding from the mountains of Esau.
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Notes and References
... הִשִּׁיאוּךָ יָכְלוּ is a hendiadys (P. Kyle McCarter, “Obadiah 7 and the Fall of Edom,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 221 [1976]: 88; Baker, “Obadiah,” 171; contrast the Septuagint ἀντέστησάν σοι ἠδυνάσθησαν πρὸς σὲ). The net effect of the phrase suggests “calculated hostility” (Armerding, “Obadiah,” Expositor’s Bible Commentary 8:435). ...
Forbes, Daniel
The Intertextual Impact of Obadiah on the Writing Prophets
(p. 23) The Master's College, 2014
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