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If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, wouldn`t they destroy until they had enough?
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A Devastation Beyond Compare
Commentators explain that this verse uses two rhetorical questions to set a baseline. Normally, grape-gatherers leave some gleanings, and thieves stop when they have enough. The implied point is that the coming judgment on Edom will be far worse—a total and complete devastation that leaves absolutely nothing behind.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
If grapegatherers come to you ... —The words are reproduced in Obadiah 1:5. Vine-gatherers leave some bunches for the gle…
16th Century
Protestant
Interpreters have not only obscured but also perverted this verse, saying only what is to no purpose, and have gone far from the meaning of the Pro…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If grape gatherers come to you, would they not leave [some] gleaning grapes ? &c.]
If gatherers of grapes, at the …
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…
