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For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
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A Tale of Two Cups
Commentators explain that Edom's celebratory "drinking" on God's holy mountain, reveling in Jerusalem's destruction, is directly answered by a different cup. God promises that all nations who oppose Him, including Edom, will be forced to drink the cup of His wrath. This second drink leads not to celebration, but to their complete and final destruction.
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Obadiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For as you have drunk - Revelry always followed pagan victory; often, desecration. The Romans bore in triumph the vessels of the second temp…
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
Here Obadiah proceeds further and says that God would revenge the wrongs done to His Church. The declaration in the last verse was general, Beh…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For as you have drunk upon my holy mountain, [so] shall all the Heathen drink continually<…
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…
