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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Obadiah 1:7

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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1:7 allies (literally men of the covenant): Edom should have been the ally of its brother Israel, but instead, Edom had made a covenant with Babylon. • promise you peace (literally men of peace, paralleling men of the covenant): It was poetic justice that Edom’s treachery with Israel was rewarded by Babylon’s treachery against Edom.
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