Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Obadiah 1:8
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Obadiah1:8
8. (Is 49:7; compare Job 5:12, 13; Is 19:3; Jr 19:7).
in that day ... even destroy--Heretofore Edom, through its intercourse with Babylon and Egypt, and from its means of information through the many caravans passing to and fro between Europe and India, has been famed for knowledge; but in that day at last ("even") I will destroy its wise men.
mount of Esau--that is, Idumea, which was a mountainous region.
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