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Don`t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don`t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.
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The Ultimate Betrayal
Commentators explain this verse describes Edom's most cruel act. They didn't just fail to help their Israelite brethren; they actively hunted them down. By standing at "crossways" or forks in the road, they intercepted and killed or captured the desperate fugitives who had escaped the initial destruction of Jerusalem. This is a stark warning against actively harming those already in distress.
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Obadiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But you should not—rather, it means, and can only mean, “And look not (that is, gaze not with pleasure) on the day of your brother in th…
19th Century
Anglican
10-16.— THE DIVINE SENTENCE JUSTIFIED BY EDOM’S GUILT.
This justification takes the form of a warning against a repetition …
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet enumerates here the kinds of cruelty that the Idumeans exercised towards the Church of God, the children of Abraham, their own kindred.…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Neither should you have stood in the crossing In a place where two or more roads met, to stop the Jews that fled, let the…
This prophecy is against Edom. Its destruction seems to have been typical, like their father Esau's rejection, and appears to refer to the destruct…
