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Obadiah 1:6

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Esau;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idumea;   Sela;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Obadiah, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Obadiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Obadiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Rock;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Obadiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Esau;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esau;   Hidden;   Obadiah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esau;   Hafṭarah;   Holy Days;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How Esau will be pillaged,his hidden treasures searched out!
Hebrew Names Version
How Esav will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
King James Version (1611)
How are the things of Esau searched out? how are his hid things sought vp?
King James Version
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
English Standard Version
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
New American Standard Bible
"Oh how Esau will be searched, And his hidden treasures searched out!
New Century Version
But you, Edom, will really lose everything! People will find all your hidden treasures!
Amplified Bible
"How Esau (Edom) shall be ransacked [by men who come to ravage with divine approval]! How his hidden treasures shall be searched out!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe are the things of Esau sought vp, and his treasures searched?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"O how Esau will be ransacked, And his hidden treasures searched out!
Legacy Standard Bible
Oh how Esau will be searched outAnd his hidden treasures ransacked!
Berean Standard Bible
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
Contemporary English Version
Everything you treasure most will be taken from you.
Complete Jewish Bible
But see how ‘Esav has been looted, their secret treasures searched out!
Darby Translation
How is Esau searched! his hidden things sought out!
Easy-to-Read Version
But the enemy will search hard for Esau's hidden treasures, and they will find them all.
George Lamsa Translation
How Esau is searched out! how are his hidden things sought out!
Good News Translation
Descendants of Esau, your treasures have been looted.
Lexham English Bible
How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked!
Literal Translation
How Esau is searched out! His hidden things are sought out!
American Standard Version
How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe are the thinges of Esau sought vp, [and] his treasures searched?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How has Esau been searched out, and how have his hidden things been detected?
English Revised Version
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden treasures sought up!
World English Bible
How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou souyten thei Esau, serchiden the hid thingis of him?
Update Bible Version
How are [the things of] Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!
Webster's Bible Translation
How are [the things] of Esau searched out! [how] are his hidden things sought!
New English Translation
How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked!
New King James Version
"Oh, how Esau shall be searched out! How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
New Living Translation
Every nook and cranny of Edom will be searched and looted. Every treasure will be found and taken.
New Life Bible
O how Esau will be robbed! His hidden riches will be looked for until they are found.
New Revised Standard
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures searched out!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How have the things of Esau been searched out! his treasures been sought up!
Douay-Rheims Bible
How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?
Revised Standard Version
How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!
Young's Literal Translation
How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But how shall they rype Esau, and seke out his treasures?

Contextual Overview

1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her. 2 See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on. 3 You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth? 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord. 5 If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all? 6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for! 7 All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place. 8 Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau? 9 And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are the: Psalms 139:1, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 10:14, Isaiah 45:3, Jeremiah 49:10, Jeremiah 50:37, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20

how are his: Daniel 2:22

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 6:9 - They shall Jeremiah 49:9 - grapegatherers Zephaniah 1:12 - that I

Cross-References

Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7
And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters be full of living things, and let birds be in flight over the earth under the arch of heaven.
Genesis 1:22
And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How are [the things] of Esau searched out!.... Or how are the Esauites, the posterity of Esau, sought out! though they dwelt in the clefts of the rocks, and hid themselves in caves and dens, yet their enemies searched them, and found there, and plucked them out from thence, so that none escaped:

[how] are his hid things sought up! his riches, wealth and treasure, hid in fortresses, in rocks and caves, where they were thought to be safe, and judged inaccessible; or that an enemy would not have ventured in search of them there; and yet these should be sought after and found by the greedy, and diligent, and venturous soldier, and carried off; which was the case of the Edomites by the Chaldeans, and will be of the antichristian states by the kings of the earth, Revelation 17:16; see

Jeremiah 49:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How are the things of Esau searched out! - literally, “How are Esau, out searched!” i. e., Esau, as a whole and in all its parts and in all its belongings, all its people and all its property, one and all. The name “Esau” speaks of them as a whole; the plural verb, “are outsearched,” represents all its parts. The word signifies a diligent search and tracking out, as in Zephaniah Zephaniah 1:12, “I will search out Jerusalem with candles,” as a man holdeth a light in every dark corner, in seeking diligently some small thing which has been lost. “The hidden things,” i. e., his hidden treasures, “are sought up.” The enemy who should come upon him, should make no passing foray, but should abide there, seeking out of their holes in the rocks, themselves and their treasures. Petra, through its rocky ramparts, was well suited, as Nineveh in the huge circuit of its massive walls was well built, to be the receptacle of rapine.

And now it was gathered, as rapine is, first or last, for the spoiler. It was safe stored up there, to be had for the seeking. No exit, no way of escape. Edom, lately so full of malicious energy, so proud, should lie at the proud foot of its conqueror, passive as the sheep in this large shamble, or as the inanimate hoards which they had laid up and which were now “tracked out.” Soon after Obadiah’s prophecy, Judah, under Ahaz, lost again to Syria, Elath 2 Kings 14:6, which it had now under Uzziah recovered 2 Kings 14:22. The Jews were replaced, it is uncertain whether by Edomites or by some tribe of Syrians. If Syrians, they were then friendly; if Edomites, Elath itself must, on the nearby captivity of Syria, have become the absolute possession of Edom. Either way, commerce again poured its wealth into Edom. To what end? To be possessed and to aggrandize Edom, thought her wealthy and her wise men; to be searched out and plundered, said the word of God. And it was so.


 
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