Obadiah 1:9

“And thy mighty [men], O Teman, shall be dismayed, etc.] Teman was one part of the country of Edom, so called from Teman, a son of Eliphaz, and grandson of Esau, (<013611>Genesis 36:11); and which it seems had been famous for men of might and courage: it abounded with brave officers, and courageous soldiers, who should now be quite dispirited, and have no heart to go out against the enemy; and, instead of defending their country, should throw away their arms, and run away in a fright. The Targum and Vulgate Latin version render it, “thy mighty men that inhabit the south;” or are on the south, the southern part of Edom, and so lay farthest off from the Chaldeans, who came from the north; yet…”

“cut off by slaughter--MAURER translates, "on account of the slaughter," namely, that inflicted on Judea by Edom (compare ). The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate connect these words with , "for the slaughter, for the violence (of which thou art guilty) against thy brother Jacob." English Version, "cut off by slaughter" (that is, an utter cutting off), answers well to "cut off for ever" (). However, the arrangement of the Septuagint gives a better parallelism in . "For the slaughter" (1) being balanced in just retribution by "thou shalt be cut off for ever" (4); as "For thy violence (not so bad as slaughter) against thy brother Jacob" (2) is balanced by "shame (not so bad as being cut off)…”

“And thy mighty, O Teman, shall be dismayed - The pagan, more religiously than we, ascribed panic to the immediate action of one of their gods, or to Nature deified, Pan, i. e., the Universe: wrong as to the being whom they “ignorantly worshiped;” right, in ascribing it to what they thought a divine agency. Holy Scripture at times discovers the hidden agency, that we may acknowledge God’s Hand in those terrors which we cannot account for. So it relates, on occasion of Jonathan’s slaughter of the Philistine garrison 1 Samuel 14:15, “there was a trembling in the host and in the field, and among all the people: the garrison and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked, so it became…”

“Teman - A principal city of Idumea. Obadiah 1:11”

“thy: Psa 76:5, Psa 76:6; Isa 19:16, Isa 19:17; Jer 49:22, Jer 50:36, Jer 50:37; Amo 2:16; Nah 3:13 O: Gen 36:11; Job 2:11; Jer 49:7, Jer 49:20; Eze 25:13; Amo 1:12 every: Isa 34:5-8, Isa 63:1-3 mount: Oba 1:21; Deu 2:5 Obadiah 1:10”