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Literal Standard Version

Obadiah 1:6

How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out,

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;   Hafá¹­arah;   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!
Bible in Basic English
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!
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

1Thus said Lord YHWH to Edom || (We have heard a report from YHWH, || And an ambassador among nations was sent, || "Rise, indeed, let us rise against her for battle"): 2"Behold, I have made you little among nations, || You [are] despised exceedingly. 3The pride of your heart has lifted you up, || O dweller in clefts of a rock || (A high place [is] his habitation, || He is saying in his heart: Who brings me down [to] earth?) 4If you go up high as an eagle, || And if you set your nest between stars, || From there I bring you down," || A declaration of YHWH. 5"If thieves have come in to you, || If spoilers of the night, || How have you been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to you, || Do they not leave gleanings? 6How has Esau been searched out! His hidden things have flowed out,7All your allies have sent you to the border, || Forgotten you, prevailed over you, have your friends, || They make your bread a snare under you, || There is no understanding in him! 8Is it not in that day," a declaration of YHWH, || "That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, || And understanding out of the mountain of Esau? 9And your mighty ones have been broken down, O Teman, || So that everyone of the mountain of Esau is cut off.

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
and God calls the light "Day," and the darkness He has called "Night"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] first day.
Genesis 1:6
And God says, "Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be separating between waters and waters."
Genesis 1:7
And God makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 1:8
And God calls the expanse "Heavens"; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] second day.
Genesis 1:11
And God says, "Let the earth yield tender grass, herb sowing seed, fruit-tree (whose seed [is] in itself) making fruit after its kind, on the earth": and it is so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brings forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed [is] in itself) after its kind; and God sees that [it is] good;
Genesis 1:13
and there is an evening, and there is a morning—[the] third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God says, "Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and for appointed times, and for days and years,
Genesis 1:20
And God says, "Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and let [the] bird fly above the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
And God blesses them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the bird multiply 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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