Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same rel…

Among the heathen. —Better here, as no marked contrast with Israel is intended, among the nations.

Interpreters for the most part give this exposition: that the people of Edom would be contemptible because God had determined to cast them down fro…

For, lo, I will make you small among the Heathen
Or, "I have given you", or "made you" ^F13 ; as if it res…

The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Is…