Obadiah Chapter 1 verse 17 Holy Bible
But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.
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But upon mount Zion shall there be deliverance, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
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And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.
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Obadiah 1 : 17 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 17-21. - Part II. THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL. Verses 17-20. - § 1. While judgment falls upon heathen nations, the house of Jacob shall be delivered, shall add to its possessions, and spread far and wide. Verse 17. - Upon Mount Zion. Once desecrated by the idolatrous revelry of the Edomites and the other nations, now the seat of Jehovah (Joel 3:17) and the kingdom. Deliverance (peletah); Septuagint, σωτηρία. Abstract for concrete, and to be rendered, "those that escape," or "those that are saved;" i.e. a remnant that shall escape destruction (comp. Joel 2:32; Amos 9:8). There shall be holiness; rather, it (Mount Zion) shall be holy; so Septuagint, καὶ ἔσται ἄγιον: Hebrew, kodesh, "a sanctuary," where the heathen shall not come (Isaiah 52:1; comp. Joel 3:17 [4:17, Hebrew]; Revelation 21:27). The house of Jacob. Judah and Benjamin, the holy seed, in whom the kingdom of the Lord should be established (comp. ver. 18). The northern kingdom is not mentioned. Shall possess their possessions; Septuagint, Κατακληρονομήσουσιν ὁ οϊκος Ἰακὼβ τοὺς κατακληρονομὴσουσιν ὁ αὐτούς, "The house of Jacob shall take for an inheritance those who took them for an inheritance;" Vulgate, Possidebit domus Jacob eos qui se possederant. These versions must have used a different punctuation from that of the Masoretic text - morishehem for morashehom (comp. Numbers 24:18, 19). The Hebrew pronoun is ambiguous, and "their possessions" may mean either those that the Jews themselves had lost, or those of the Edomites. But nothing is said of Israel being carried away captive and losing its country; and, though the prophet may have looked forward to such a catastrophe and to a future restoration, this is not the subject here. The possessions referred to are those of the enemy represented by the Edomites, and those which the Jews had lost since the days of David and Solomon; and "the house of Jacob" signifies, not merely the earthly kingdom of Judah, but "the people of God, who are eventually to obtain the dominion of the world" (Keil); Mark 16:15.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers17-21.--ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF JEHOVAH ON MOUNT ZION.(17) Deliverance.--Better, as in margin, the fugitives of Israel who have survived the recent calamity. This is clear from Isaiah 10:20, where pheleytah is in parallelism with shear=remnant, as well as Joel 2:32; Hebrews 3:5, where it is parallel to seridim, also remnant. (Comp. also Judges 21:17; 2Chronicles 20:24.) While the judgment is falling upon all the heathen nations, Mount Zion will be an asylum for all the Israelites who had fled for safety, and been scattered and dispersed. . . .
